Re: [Maxima-users] What is special about the variable c ?

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Fateman <fateman@cs.berkeley.edu> writes:

    Richard> Realizing eventually that the world outside MIT PREFERRED
    Richard> upper and lower case, some effort was made to allow Macsyma
    Richard> to use both cases (a global symbol bothcases  was introduced).
    Richard> But the effort was half-hearted and incomplete.

I personally wish maxima didn't allow upper and lower case, and
converted everything to lower case. :-)  I never have variables named
n and N and really expect them to be different.

Another annoying side effect of the prompt changes is that I can no
longer refer to the output as easily as I used to when I'm in lisp.  I
used to be able to say $D8 to get the Lisp representation of the
output D8.  Now I have to say |$%o8|.  Rather annoying.  $%o8 is
annoying enough but having to remember to escape just adds to it.

Oh well.  That's progress, I guess.

Ray