We did play with hacking a extra line into meval* that did
a post-simplification application of a user-defined function.
It worked for the few cases I tested, but I got cold feet after
imagining all the trouble I might cause--infinite loops, and etc.
Barton
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>To: Richard Fateman
>From: C Y
>Sent by: maxima-admin@math.utexas.edu
>Date: 03/14/2005 06:20PM
>cc: Maxima list
>Subject: Re: [Maxima] Need some help
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>but whenever I add tellsimpafter into the mix, things go bad. I can't
>seem to figure out the syntax in general, but inaddition to that there
>are times (like the setunits command, for example) when I don't want
>tellsimpafter horning in - I want it to work just before the final
expression
>is sent to be displayed, and only then. Essentially I want
>to duplicate the effect of typing processunits at the command line
>automatically. I guess perhaps I'm back to my original suggestion of
>adding a new mechanism to do this, or I suppose I
>could concede defeat and give up the idea of having it
> done automatically. Clearly this can't have been a common need in
Maxima.