use of $csign



-----Raymond Toy <raymond.toy at stericsson.com> wrote: -----

>I?haven't?been?following?the?$csign?discussion?too?closely,?but?doesn't
>Maxima?pretty?much?assume?results?are?real-valued??So?having?things
>suddenly?be?$complex?instead?of?$pnz?would?break?many?things.

Presumably, the defvar *complexsign* controls all this. But yes,
returning $complex instead of $pnz will break lots of stuff. I was
trying to learn about how $cign works / should work / doesn't work.

BW