Some random thoughts on future features



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