On 11/18/08, Viktor T. Toth <vttoth at vttoth.com> wrote:
> I always felt that asksign was one of the worst evils of Maxima.
Well, asksign certainly is annoying.
> Have we ever considered replacing it with a mechanism
> like piecewise() in Maple?
I wrote some experimental code (share/contrib/noninteractive)
which captures asksign queries and turns them into conditional
expressions. It sort of works; you can see some successful
examples in the comment header for noninteractive.mac.
However, I think it to banish asksign will require a different
approach. I can say more about that if anyone is interested.
FWIW
Robert Dodier