I wrote
>
> Perhaps it is time to make this the default and lay the old maxima
> arrays (which are stored on the property list and have confusing
> semantics)
> to rest. This would make maxima much closer to other languages.
But I see that CL arrays have some limitations compared to maxima
arrays. Like it seems you have to declare their dimension (size I should
say). I wonder
then what the point is of declaring a CL array to be "hashed".
It's all very messy!
Michel