Hi Maxima's list!
I'm working on an 'Inspector' pane for wxMaxima, where a user can
view his variables and functions - basicly I get variable names and
function names from Maxima's variables $values and $functions. I
thought that these two variables hold user defined functions and
variables, but then I found out how quickly they get polluted (for
instance with a call to 'ode2' or 'load(stats);') with a large number
of symbols. This makes my inspector rather useless.
Two questions:
1) What is the purpose of $values and $functions as they are
implemented now? It seems inconsistent to bring in symbols from
a .mac file, but not from a .lisp file (if I'm not mistaken) during
'load()'. I, ofcourse, would like to see that $values and $functions
would hold only variables and functions that were entered by the user
in prompt. Do any Maxima internals depend on the contents of these two?
2) Is there any way to get only the variables and functions that the
user defined himself, not by a 'load' call or some autoload?
Regards,
Ziga