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A.13.4 Between Versions 3 and 4

FilledSmallSquare 61 new built-in objects have been added, some of whose names may conflict with names already being used.

FilledSmallSquare N[0] now yields a machine-precision zero rather than an exact zero.

FilledSmallSquare FullOptions has been superseded by AbsoluteOptions, which yields results in the same form as Options.

FilledSmallSquare Element[x, y] or now has built-in evaluation rules.

FilledSmallSquare The symbols I and E are now output in StandardForm as (\[ImaginaryI]) and (\[ExponentialE]) respectively.

FilledSmallSquare A new second argument has been added to CompiledFunction to allow easier manipulation and composition of compiled functions.



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