Re: format compact and loose

[John W. Eaton]

On  7-Sep-2011, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

| I tried to avoid it, but it involved changing the API for several
| classes derived from octave_base_value. The changes cascaded far, and
| in the end, I still made several mistakes that gave runtime errors. I
| decided against it finally because all ini all the compact_format
| state is really global state anyways, so why not use a global variable
| for global state?

OK, it is certainly not fatal to have another global variable.  I just
thought it was worth trying to avoid it if possible.  Thanks for
taking a look.  I hope you did not waste too much time on it.

jwe