Subject: Strings and symbols (Was: Case sensitive maxima)
From: ole.rohne at cern
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 23:38:13 +0200
Ray> (..) It also treats symbols as strings in various places.
And even as maxima seems to accept strings at the user level, they are
really symbols with the magical &-prefix - as I discovered when I
tried to set $gnuplot_command...
Does anyone know what is the intention of having double quotes in the
maxima syntax, is really supposed to be strings, or is it to be able
to use really sick variable names? Currently, both are possible...
Ole