Subject: Case-sensitivity goals, policy and implementation
From: Viktor T. Toth
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 16:27:49 -0400
> What happens when a user redefines a built-in function? That is
> perfectly legal (though it does give a warning), and occasionally it
> is even useful. The proposed implementation would redefine the
> function for one spelling and leave the built-in definition for the
> other. Yuck.
Yuck indeed. I think that in this case, both spellings should be redefined.
Once MAXIMA recognizes a name as that of a system object, I don't see the
need to be able to "undo" this and allow the two spellings to be separately
redefined.
Viktor