freeof, functions and nounify



Stavros Macrakis wrote:

> Agreed.  The noun/verb thing is a perpetual headache....  Consider for
> example x-nounify(x) (not equal to zero).  Anyway.

I think the noun / verb thing is only a headache--I don't think
it ever really *does* anything. The abs function has a long-standing
noun / verb confusion. 

If you write new Maxima code, I would suggest that you at try to
make the noun and verb names the same. Isn't that the way sets work?

(%i12) ?print('(set(u,n,k)));
(($SET SIMP) $K $N $U) 
(%o12) {k,n,u}
(%i13) ?print((set(u,n,k)));
(($SET SIMP) $K $N $U) 

Barton