putting defstruct into the Maxima manual



Raymond Toy wrote:
> Richard Fateman wrote:
>   
>> It would generally be better not to use x,y,z as field names
>> because assigning values, say x:10 to them will break stuff like ff at x,
>> which will be ff at 10, which is not meaningful.
>>   
>>     
> That seems like a bad thing.  Is is possible to make it so that ff at x
> remains ff at x, even if x has been assigned a value?
>
> Ray
>
>
>   
 I just tried it, and that paragraph is wrong.  assigning x:10 does
not break ff at x at all.  So it is fixed, and that paragraph should not be 
in the documentation..


RJF