Wxmaxima does not save user's answers to maxima's questions

On 10/31/07, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ...Often, one does not want to make assumptions
> regarding the sign of certain expressions, because one wants to know
> the result of the calculations for all possible signs of the
> expressions. For instance, in my current worksheet, I have to answer
> maxima over 20 times, that is rather tedious. I think that wxmaxima
> would save the user of this tedious answering task if it gave the
> option to the user of recording also his/her answers before saving the
> worksheet.
>

But the scope of the answers is just one computation, so what should it
save? Consider:

    asksign(x);
       Is x p, n, or z? p
     => p
    asksign(x);
      Is x p, n, or z? n
     => p

This would have to be changed to something like

    (assume(x>0), temp: asksign(x), forget(x>0), temp) => p
    (assume(x<0), temp: asksign(x), forget(x<0), temp) => n

What's more, it is perfectly legal and reasonable for user code to make
assumptions dynamically....

           -s