List Commands Library for 50g

[John Keith]

(08-13-2017 11:06 PM)DavidM Wrote:  Re: LSPLIT<whatever>

"LSPLT" fills up a menu. "LSPLIT" shows as "LSPLI", as would "LSPLITR". So if both of those commands are to be included, you would see LSPLI LSPLI in the menus, but the entire commands would show as normal when keying in a program. Is this a problem? I could see it being a bit confusing for someone who wasn't already familiar with both commands.

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So then the question becomes what to name it. LSORT2 (or LSORT<anything>) would show on the menu as LSORT, which then might be easily confused with a simple sort command. And since a person might easily have 2 lists on the stack anyway, this could be a little riskier than usual -- you might not even realize that you just sorted 2 lists instead of 1 until it's too late. I would probably want to make the two stand out -- call it something like L2SRT (or L2SORT).

Thoughts?

I would consider two different commands that appear the same in menus to be unacceptable. I have seen other user libraries that have that issue and it is confusing and annoying. I would prefer abbreviations that are a bit less readable to ones that are easily confused.

John