On 9/29/06, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/28/06, Barton Willis <willisb at unk.edu> wrote:
> > The limitation of apply('matrix, ...) comes from the
> > Lisp you are using....
> Well, this behavior falls into the category of features which may
> as well be bugs. By default GCL allows 64 function arguments max.
> I'm pretty sure we need to rework matrix (and maybe other functions
> which take an arbitrary number of arguments) so that the user
> is much less likely to bump into this.
I agree. If the underlying Lisp has a silly limitation, we should code
around it, not expose it to the Maxima user.
-s