Case sensitivity in 5.9.1



>>>>> "Jaime" == Jaime E Villate  writes:

    Jaime> Hi,
    Jaime> regarding case sensitivity, can somebody please help me?:

    Jaime> My students are using Maxima 5.9.1 and I've copied into their disks
    Jaime> plotdf.lisp, from share/contrib/ in the CVS repository.

    Jaime> That file defines function "plotdf", but Maxima only recognizes PLOTDF:

No solution, but try this:

load("plotdf");

plotdf([y,-x]);

Note carefully the quotes for the load funciton.  This at least tries
to run some program, but currently fails because I don't have
everything set up right, I guess.  At least it doesn't just return the
function.

I think maxima was getting confused because it sees |plotdf| was
interned from the load function.  The quotes prevent that, so plotdf
calls the right plotdf function.

Case is very messy in 5.9.1, so I didn't look any farther than this.
I hope 5.9.2 will be out soon so we can forget about 5.9.1.

Ray