On 4/3/10, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah, in lmdcls, it's pretty clear that unspecial is not supported on sbcl
> and openmcl. We need to fix this. (I think the best solution is not
> to have to do unspecials at all.)
The use of special variables in Maxima could be cleaned up a lot.
I wouldn't be opposed to anybody who wants to take on the task.
I am imagining stuff like: change names to use the *foo* convention,
replace special variables with lexical variables where possible,
perhaps wider use of CL packages to isolate symbols used in
different contexts. (If we did that stuff, I think we could do away
with unspecial entirely.)
FWIW
Robert Dodier