[Maxima] Maxima strings reimplementation now in CVS trunk

[Raymond Toy (RT/EUS)]

Robert Dodier wrote:
> On 10/23/07, Raymond Toy (RT/EUS) <raymond.toy at ericsson.com> wrote:
> 
>>> (%i8) asksign(x-y);
>>> "Is  "y - x"  positive, negative, or zero?"
>>>
>>> Note that the question is now enclosed in double quotes.  This didn't
>>> use to do that.  Is that intended?
> 
> Ray, I tried this example with current CVS Maxima + GCL,
> SBCL, and Clisp, and I don't see quote marks around the question.

How silly of me!  I must have been playing around sometime ago with 
stringdisp and had it set to true in my init file.  I had completely 
forgotten about it.

It does bring up the question on whether strings should have quotes or 
not for things like asksign, but I suppose you could claim that that is 
by design. :-)

Ray