Subject: evaluate Maxima string from lisp command line...
From: Stavros Macrakis
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 14:03:11 -0500
> > macsyma-read-string function is supposed to do this, but
> > doesn't work in 5.9.0/GCL.
>
> Because it needs a string with a fill-pointer.
Thanks for the info about fill pointers, which I was ignorant of. In
this particular application, this seems like overkill, though! Also
complicates the interface to macsyma-read-string unnecessarily. All
that to save consing a string....
> But... why don't you want to use the #$ reader macro, which
> is described somewhere in the manual.
#$...$ is intended for inline Maxima code (hence the automatic insertion
of meval*), not for dynamic reading of variable data.
-s