Some comments which don't have much to do with the content of this
discussion ...
On 10/15/06, Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso <jordigh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sort of. Try user-contribbed, (the admittedly very
> unintuitively-named) "diag" package:
Linear algebra functions for Maxima have been invented at various times
because they are so useful. It would be nice if someone would review
the existing stuff and move any still-useful items into, say,
share/linearalgebra/.
The hard part would probably be resolving any redundancies.
Secondly we should consider making the linear algebra functions
autoloading since they are so often used.
> (%i3) mat_function(exp,A);
I'd like to encourage anyone writing a new package to spell out words.
I'd rather see matrix_function here. But I do like the use of underscore
to separate words.
FWIW
Robert Dodier