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

On 10/31/07, Stavros Macrakis <macrakis at alum.mit.edu> 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....

I am convinced now, Stavros. Thanks.

Paul