Just to kick in my two cents worth, to me, a new user, the whole idea of
assigning a result to a prompt seems rather strange. Is it really all
that useful? After all, if you want to assign a result or an input to
a variable for later use, you can (I think, anyway), but most of the lines
entered would probably not need to be recalled by name. Seems like any
convenience would be outweighed by the potential for confusion, as in Cn
being common usage for constants.
Not to mention that it's completely useless when you work as I have been,
editing the Maxima source in a file, and then batching it.
James