f2cl , maybe off topic for maxima



>>>>> "Jesper" == Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk> writes:

    Jesper> Raymond Toy <toy@rtp.ericsson.se> writes:
    Jesper> [on f2cl]

    >> However, equivalence statements definitely don't work.  (I have a
    >> solution but that gets deep in the the internals of the Lisp system.)

    Jesper> BTW, is f2cl related to the Fortran-to-Lisp converter described in

    Jesper>    <http://world.std.com/~pitman/Papers/Fortran-to-Lisp.html>; ?

The one discussed here is from the University of New Zealand.  I
suspect they're not related, but I don't really know.

    Jesper> I just read the paper quickly, but it seems to claim to be able to
    Jesper> handle EQUIVALENCE.

But when was the last time you actually used and needed EQUIVALENCE
statements?  Have you seen any fairly recent code that actually used
EQUIVALENCE?  I have in mind a possible design for this, but it would
be ugly and probably non-portable or very slow if portable.

Ray