On 4/21/10, Stavros Macrakis <macrakis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 'ev' is a very idiosyncratic function, which should rarely be used within
> functions, especially given Maxima's dynamic scope rules.
Yeah -- I've come around to this point of view. It's too hard to predict
what's going to happen when ev is called.
Maybe we could split up the various functions performed by ev
into separate functions and retire ev itself, or invent a new
evaluation function. Just guessing here.
best
Robert Dodier