-----maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu wrote: -----
>I think that consistency with Macsyma means consistency with a design that
>has perhaps has had more professional thought than we may be willing to
>commit to at the moment. It is not just a matter of portability of
>programs.
There is more---dot-dot was introduced to Macsyma for matlab
support. So compatibility with Macsyma also means compatibility with
the matlab language(s).
Now I see that Macsyma allows a user-supplied step (as suggested by
Raymond). but I think doing this would require a change to the parser
(or make dot-dot a prefix operator---making dot-dot no faster to type
than makelist).
Barton