On 11/2/05, Steve Haflich wrote:
> I don't know if Maxima allows the default input radix to be changed,
> but regardless, the proposed change to input syntax is not backward
> compatible. How can you be sure in some ancient but still running
> Maxima program source that there isn't an integer written with a
> training point?
Frankly, I don't see a problem here. Case sensitivity is a much larger
incompatibility, and we hear a lot of complaints on the mailing list,
yet those complaints are never about broken case-insensitive programs.
All the best,
Robert Dodier