Subject: Adding characters as valid variable characters
From: Nathaniel E. Powell
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:03:17 -0600
Thanks! That seems to work great!
-Nathan
-----Original Message-----
From: van Nek [mailto:van.nek at arcor.de]
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 12:59 PM
To: Nathaniel E. Powell
Cc: Maxima at math.utexas.edu
Subject: Re: [Maxima] Adding characters as valid variable characters
(%i1) \$foo;
(%o1) $foo
Perhaps you want to use a backslash?
Volker van Nek
Am 25 Jul 2008 um 12:22 hat Nathaniel E. Powell geschrieben:
>
> A few months ago I remember running across something in the Maxima documentation about
> how to add special characters as valid characters for variable names. However, over the past
> couple of days I?ve been looking all over for this in the documentation again, but I haven?t been
> able to find it. For example, I want to make it so that it is valid to begin maxima variable names
> with dollar signs. ($foo). Do you happen to know how to do this?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> -Nathan Powell
>