Subject: keyword names that can't be set in maxima
From: Stavros Macrakis
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:34:42 -0500
On 16 Feb 2007 22:57:05 +0100, Albert Reiner <areiner at tph.tuwien.ac.at>
wrote:
>
> > (I suppose we could use unary prefix colon if it always appears in
> > syntactic contexts like (:foo=3, :bar=3), but that doesn't sound
> > appealing)
>
> Especially, as one would also want, e.g., the optional 'bottomup
> argument to scanmap().
>
If ":" were a unary prefix operator, then scanmap(func,expr,:bottomup) would
be just fine.
-s