Since people are discussing a new case statement for maxima I propose
we add some more stuff at the same time.
Currently I can think of three things which I would like to have in
maxima. I think I would like to have 2) and 3) even more that 1).
1) cond statement (with whatever syntax)
2) assignments to lists:
something like [a,b,c] == [1,2,3] would be equivalent to a:1, b:2,
c:3. This could be done by extending : to work in this case or adding
a new operator == or similar.
3) unwind_protect:
I think Barton had an implementation which he posted to this list.
Andrej