environment variables



Stavros Macrakis writes:
> Maxima allows you to define a "setting" function for a symbol as its 
> "assign" property, so setting $xxx to &foo can also set xxx to "foo".  
> Look at the code around msetchk in mlisp.lisp.
> 

This is great!  But there is information that
some lisp implementations may have troubles
with non-ascii characters in symbol names.  Thus
we may have troubles with non-ascii path names
represented as &foo.  On the other hand I don't
really know severity of the problem.

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