On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 10:11, Raymond Toy wrote:
> While looking at some old mail messages and what not, I started to
> think about a few small things.
I don't have much to contribute to this thread except encouragement.
The debate in this thread is the sort of thing I like to see.
I think gradually introducing more modern lisp idioms into Maxima is a
good thing. We should take advantage of the features of the language as
they exist today as long as we are doing so in order to solve real
problems. I think both examples you give fit that description.
> First, it seems that maxima now requires gcl in ANSI mode. (Is that
> right?)
Yes.
--Jim