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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Vadim V. Zhytnikov
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