Re: graphics future

[John W. Eaton]

On 26-Apr-2007, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

| > | While group objects make these a LITTLE bit more convenient, I fail to
| > | see what qualitative added value they have.
| > 
| > It is impossible to implement some fairly common plot types (stem,
| > bar, hist, stairs) in a compatible way without them.
| 
| Take stem for example.  Where is the incompatibility?  What portion of this 
| incompatibility has to do with the graphics engine?

It is an incompatibility if stem does not return a stemseries object
with all the expected properties.  It causes trouble because
subsequent operations on the handle properties may fail to work as
expected.

jwe