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Function Option Names

From	mmausr <opngid@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica
Subject	Function Option Names
Date	2011-04-17 11:54 +0000
Organization	Steven M. Christensen and Associates, Inc and MathTensor, Inc.
Message-ID	<ioekde$n2p$1@smc.vnet.net> (permalink)

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I'm curious why some option names are strings (e.g. options to the
FinancialDerivative function), while other option names are symbols
(e.g. options to the ListPlot function).

More generally, why are some parameters of built-in functions
specified as strings and others specified as symbols that evaluate to
themselves?

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Function Option Names mmausr <opngid@gmail.com> - 2011-04-17 11:54 +0000
  Re: Function Option Names "Sjoerd C. de Vries" <sjoerd.c.devries@gmail.com> - 2011-04-17 23:16 +0000
    Re: Function Option Names mmausr <opngid@gmail.com> - 2011-04-21 07:11 +0000

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