solving a sytem of symbolic equations



On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, C Y wrote:

> 
> This raises a point I hadn't considered, but may deserve a little
> discussion - do we want to make it a little harder to access the line
> labels than it currently is?  We could show (C1) etc. but if people
> want to address them as variables have them do line(C1) or something
> similar? I suppose the better way is to have people watch out for names
> but I just thought it was worth comment.
> 
> CY

YES, YES, YES! I *hate* this "feature" too!!! (and apart from interactive 
use, I think it wouldn't change a great deal to switch to in(1) and out(1) 
or something similar. What does Maple do, what does Axiom do, what does 
MuPad do? (maybe in() and out() are not too good either, I don't know) 

Martin