defmfun (was Re: [Maxima] Case-sensitivity goals, policy and implementation)
Subject: defmfun (was Re: [Maxima] Case-sensitivity goals, policy and implementation)
From: James Amundson
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 20:00:40 -0500
On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 08:32, Barton Willis wrote:
> At least to me, the 'defmfun' macro makes icky looking code. (NSet and
> orthopoly use
> 'defun' instead.)
I have looked at defmfun in detail only recently. It certainly doesn't
do what I assumed it did. As far as I can tell, it simply allows
functions to use "old maclisp narg syntax" to define functions. I really
think we would be better off rearranging the few function definitions
that use the old syntax and ditching defmfun entirely.
--Jim