PART+, was: Re: [Maxima] Yet another units package

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Fateman  writes:

    Richard> Why was this choice made for the macsyma matcher?
    Richard> Because the other kind of match was already programmed in
    Richard> macsyma, in the program "schatchen" written by Joel
    Richard> Moses.  (Schatchen is Yiddish for "matchmaker").  The
    Richard> program is in the SIN or SININT file, and is, I think,
    Richard> called M1.

For any one interested, it's actually in schatc.lisp.  Some
documentation for it is in the file itself and more can be found in
his thesis; a scanned version (with pages missing) can be found at

http://www.lcs.mit.edu/publications/pubs/pdf/MIT-LCS-TR-047.pdf.

I think the documentation is a bit incomplete though because the code
uses stuff that's not mentioned in the thesis.

Ray