prefix operators in maxima 4.5 & 5.5



Defining "curl" to be a prefix operator makes closefile() parse as curl
osefile().  Is there
there a switch that changes this behavior?  Specifically:

(c1) prefix("curl");

(d1) "CURL"

(c2) closefile("buddy.out");

(d2) CURL osefile(buddy.out)

/*  cl is also a prefix operator */

(c3) cl x;

(c3)  CURL x

(I've been playing with maxima's vector packages.  I may adopt it as a
summer programming project.)

Regards,

Barton Willis