On 1/16/07, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/16/07, Richard Fateman <fateman at eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> > I'm not arguing about the use of meval internal to Maxima.
> > I think it is a mistake to use the maxima command ev(...)
> > unless there is no alternative.
More precisely, I think what is being talked about is using ev to
substitute particular values in expressions, for example ev(..., a=3)
instead of subst(3,a,...). The temptation is strong of course because
of the convenient command line syntax "..., a=3".
> I think ?resimplify is the function to call.
> There isn't a function named simplify.
The Maxima-level equivalent of resimplify is precisely
expand(...,0.0). I suppose it would make sense to predefine
resimplify as that. On the other hand, I think it would be a bad idea
to call it "simplify", which implies that it does something other than
what the system does automatically.
-s