Hmm. This has never been clear to me - the relationship between
tellsimp, rules, the let system, and when and how to use them.
tellsimp and tellsimpafter seem to be the only mechanism for having the
macsyma environment perform a simplification "by default" - do rule
sets also have that ability?
CY, who nominates this issue for a high priority position in the
documentation/cleanup/re-impliment cleanly/whatever list.
--- Richard Fateman wrote:
> Just off the top of my head, I think that what
> you could try is explicit rule sets, rather than tellsimp.
>
> The letsimp facility is quite separate from any other
> simplification modification, and was a student project,
> years ago, to emulate the similar facility in REDUCE.
>
> RJF
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