On 1/6/07, Richard Fateman <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Mostly it is roughly the same as lisp, which uses syntax like this..
>
> (case xxx
> (first_alternative first_action)
> ((list of possible alternatives) action1 action2 ....)
> (otherwise the_rest of the case actions...)
>
> )
Lisp is a very bad model for Maxima syntax. FWIW.
> Using : is, in my view, confusing since that has another use.
Let's think of another token, then.
best
Robert