Existing CAS commands --> Prime discussion

[Joe Horn]

(12-11-2018 04:56 AM)John P Wrote:  I will not start some big commotion because of the 'makevector' and if I really, really needed it I would probably already write some little prgm. to substitute for it.

Unless I am mistaken, its functionality can be achieved simply by using square brackets. Example (with Textbook Display turned off):

a:=3,4,5
a --> 3,4,5
[a] --> [3,4,5] which is the same output as makevector(a).

or:

mat2list(a) --> {3,4,5} if you prefer a list instead of a vector.