--- Stavros Macrakis <stavros.macrakis@verizon.net> wrote:
> Is there a set of patches to the rest of Maxima, or is this a project
> that will have to be undertaken if we want to use newsimp? If the
> latter, I would suggest we do it once, and do it right, so that we
> can use not just CL rationals, but also CL complexes, IEEE floats,
> user-defined extension types, etc., as I suggested in my email of
> 2003-Dec-12 11:41: "clean up and abstract other object types".
I'd put my vote in for "do it once, do it right." Please forgive me
Stavros if you covered this (I lost a few emails) but I have a couple
"duh" questions - if we are going to do this, are we going to use CLOS
objects and introduce object oriented programming to Maxima? Would
that be the "right" way or overkill? I've always wondered if
restructuring some stuff to use CLOS would make sense for
maintainability concerns, but I don't know how much of a pain it would
be to impliment/use or whether or not there is come collision between
CLOS concepts and Maxima's ideas.
CY
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