Also load(opsubst)--> load("t.mac"). I'm not the only person
that has made the mistake of load(opsubst) instead of load("opsubst").
Barton
maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu wrote on 11/17/2009 10:34:39 AM:
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> [Maxima] load(true)
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> Stavros Macrakis
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> load(true) currently loads .../share/maxima/5.19.2/share/contrib/
> gentran/test/T.mac .
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> Two problems here. First of all, it is using the internal print
> form of true (T) rather than the Maxima print form.
>
> Bigger problem: load(true) is almost certainly a user error, where
> the user should have been quoting the argument. For example, load
> (simp) will load T.mac above.
>
> I would recommend that
>
> 1) we rename the file T.mac to something else
> 2) we give an error for a boolean or numeric argument to load
> 3) that load use the Maxima print form of its argument, not the
> Lisp print form (not sure if there are any other cases that matter here)
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> More radically, I'd like to recommend that load only accept a string
> argument, but that would probably break too much code and too many
habits....
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