Re: Shift selection using interactive spec

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

David Kastrup wrote:
> But there is no way to change the DOC string when one tacks a property
> onto the function.  And that means that the DOC string change and the
> property tack-on are not inherently _synchronized_.  And that is a bad
> idea.

I think you are attaching the wrong point. What is important is not only 
the doc string, but what the help system does. Of course the help system 
can take care of this. In this respect there is no problem with using a 
property here.

> Again, this hides away part of the interactive behavior of a command to
> a different place.  And again, it makes the mechanism depend on the
> _name_ (aka symbol) of the called function rather than its function
> definition.

David, may I remind you that I asked you earlier about a way to change 
the interactive spec in the function cell. You answered with a way to 
instead attach a property to the symbol name.