Wiki article about maxima's treatment of arrays and functions?

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> - a simple macro with_gensyms() to evaluate some body after binding
>   some symbols to gensyms; these gensyms had names derived from the
>   original symbols (important for readability) and recorded the
>   original symbol recorded as a property
>
> - and function degensymify() that takes an expression and replaces all
>   gensyms by interned Maxima symbols (with names obtained from the
>   symbol originally given to with_gensyms()), optionally wrapping the
>   whole thing in a with_gensyms() form.  The result is safe for
>   writing to a file, as far as I can tell.
I assume this is also meant as protection if the user uses a reserved word
in his expressions?

I just noticed that

do+1;

in maxima toplevel puts maxima into an infinite loop!

Michel