Subject: keyword names that can't be set in maxima
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:53:31 -0700
On 2/17/07, Stavros Macrakis <macrakis at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> If ":" were a unary prefix operator, then scanmap(func,expr,:bottomup)
> would be just fine.
We could have the parser recognize :foo as a Lisp keyword
(i.e. same as ?:foo at present, just lose the ?).
That has the advantage that Maxima keywords would inherit the
behavior of Lisp keywords. The downside, of course, is confusion
with assignment.
Robert