present state of unevaluated conditionals, was: Handling branch cuts ...
Subject: present state of unevaluated conditionals, was: Handling branch cuts ...
From: Stavros Macrakis
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 18:14:33 -0500
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:00:31 -0800 (PST), Robert Dodier
wrote:
> ... Maxima knows enough about unevaluated conditionals to
> make them useful in this context. Consider:
All you say is true. But if nothing is known about the value of x,
and you do ev(expr,nouns), instead of getting an unevaluated
conditional back, you will get an error. Not really satisfactory!