argument checking, was: About submatrix and its meaning

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Raymond Toy <raymond.toy at stericsson.com> wrote:

> I think your example with the lambda is also clumsy and incomprehensible

Yeah, that was a little over the top, wasn't it.
Sorry, sometimes I argue trivialities a little too strenuously.

> Instead of discussing these things, perhaps we should be discussing what
> do we really want maxima to be able to do, and how do we want to express
> such things. ?(Or maybe that will just descend into blackhole?)

Well, it's probably worthwhile to go over some big-picture, long-term
stuff from time to time. It's not really something we can argue about,
though. If one person says, "In my world of dreams, Maxima could
do X" it doesn't help much for someone else to say "You should
want Y instead of X."

So what do you have in mind?

Robert Dodier