> Yes. Returning a partially evaluated expression is consistent with the
> behavior of other Maxima functions, including integrate.
> This has at least one happy consequence; it is common enough for
> the integration to fail for some reason but succeed when reevaluated
> in a slightly different context, e.g. a call to quad_qags nested inside
> find_root or another quad_qags call.
Okay -- good to know.
--Mike