[van.Nek at gmx.net, Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:48:15 +0100]:
> Hello,
> is this a bug or intended?
By default, the Common Lisp reader is case-insensitive and converts to
upper case. So
> (defun $Foo (x) x)
this actually defines a Lisp function $FOO, and as Maxima
unfortunately switched to case sensitivity and people wanted to be
able to use lower case for everything, this corresponds to Maxima
symbol foo.
One of
(defun |$Foo| ...
(defun |$fOO| ...
probably does what you want.
HTH,
Albert.