On Friday 29 October 2004 21:16, you wrote:
> >>>>> "Valery" == Valery Pipin <pip@iszf.irk.ru> writes:
>
> Valery> May I ask a question?
> Valery> Will the downcasing of the lisp sources lead automaticaly to
> downcasing of Valery> the variables and functions defined there? I tried to
> make itensor's lisp
>
> No. Even when maxima is fully case-sensitive, it will appear to be
> so, but in fact, from Lisp's viewpoint, the case is inverted.
> However, from the user's view, it will appear as if lower case is
> lower case and upper is upper.
>
> Valery> sources to low case. When I loaded itensor I found that maxima
> still accept Valery> only variables written in upper case.
>
> Can you give a quick example of this? I'd like to see how this works
> with the case-sensitive maxima.
What do you mean a quick ?
E.g., consider declaring fully symmetric for 3-rank covariant tensor
a([i,j],[]) via decsym(a,3,0,[SYM(all)],[]).
This will be ok. However decsym(a,3,0,[sym(all)],[]) is not!
best regards,
Valery