RE: [Axiom-developer] _*STANDARD_-OUTPUT_* and similar

[Bill Page]

Tim,

I don't think the problem here has anything to do with
strange line breaks. As far as I can tell these are
artifically inserted by the email system on long lines.
The issue that Mike was pointing at was the use of the
_ in the name

  read_-line

My explanation is that the _ acts as an escape so that
- is parsed as part of the name and not an operator.
Does this make sense to you? Is it true that this use
of _ appears first at the bootsys level of the code?

Regards,
Bill Page.

On Thursday, October 07, 2004 11:54 PM you wrote
to Mike Thomas:
> 
> In your example code:
> 
> 
>   c:/cvs/head/axiom/src/interp/i-syscmd.boot.pamphlet:    line :=
> read_-line(files
> tream,false)
> 
> which appears to be line 1319 in my sources my copy reads:
> 
>     line := read_-line(filestream,false)
> 
> Since this line is from the original pamphlet file TeX is not 
> involved.
> The pamphlet files are hand coded.
> 
> Did you pass these files thru a DOS or Windows system or editor?
> I don't see where the random linebreaks could come from.
> Clearly the line of code you gave has a syntax error.
> 
> Very odd. I'm at a loss to explain it. Check the file modification
> times and see if some process touched the file and made it later 
> than the surrounding pamphlet files.
> 
> Tim
>