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From: William Denton <william@williamdenton.org>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [DISCUSSION] What should we do with undocumented x^(superscript inside /round/ braces) syntax? (was: Subscript with parenthesis)
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2024 19:36:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <VY-wim_hLB5yT3D0OqspVjzsapnwXhVl5K629fSlP4-4A5dnB-tE2OvjhBMWshdR-aLUZxNwOT1n2hMZXMx3wGb5BVw1hIwwrFJ6YdzeFj8=@williamdenton.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wmr3xk0n.fsf@localhost>

On Saturday, February 17th, 2024 at 07:07, Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> wrote:

> I tentatively propose to remove the x^(2-i) example from the docstring
> and mark the ^(...) syntax deprecated.
> 
> WDYT?

I think it's very sensible.  It's surprising ^(...) works like this, and if anyone was using it (perhaps by accident) it will be easy to change when necessary.


Bill

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  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-17 19:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-21 22:45 Subscript with parenthesis Tom Alexander
2023-09-21 23:02 ` Tom Alexander
2023-09-22  9:14   ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-29 16:12     ` Tom Alexander
2024-02-17 14:06     ` [DISCUSSION] What should we do with undocumented x^(superscript inside /round/ braces) syntax? (was: Subscript with parenthesis) Ihor Radchenko
2024-02-17 19:36       ` William Denton [this message]
2024-02-17 20:03         ` Thomas Dye
2024-02-17 21:22       ` Mark Barton
2024-02-19 18:15       ` [DISCUSSION] What should we do with undocumented x^(superscript inside /round/ braces) syntax? Fraga, Eric
2024-02-19 18:30         ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-03-20 13:57           ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-04-21  9:44             ` Ihor Radchenko

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