Re: [Maxima] problem calling MAXIMA function at lisp level
Subject: Re: [Maxima] problem calling MAXIMA function at lisp level
From: willisb at unk
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 12:27:10 -0600
One semester I kept a tally of the problems UNK students ran into using
Maple. I no longer have the tallies, but about
30% of them were due to case sensitivity, 30% were problems with
libraries that needed to be manually loaded,
and 30% were mismatched parens. (x)Maxima has partial solutions to each
of these problems. I think it would
be a mistake to allow mix both function name styles really_fast_factor and
ReallyFastFactor in
user-level Maxima code.
My vote is to keep Maxima case insensitive for the user. I used to want
Maxima source code to be converted to
all lower case; I'm not so sure now -- now lower case mostly means bug
fixes or new code.
Barton