Inconsistency when using previously defined variables as arguments to functions
Subject: Inconsistency when using previously defined variables as arguments to functions
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 09:06:47 -0800
On 1/30/11, Leo Butler <l.butler at ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> The foolproof solution would use a gensym, but the answers would not
> look so nice.
The blex construct which I introduced earlier in this thread
assigns display properties to gensyms so they appear to
be ordinary variables, e.g. blex creates a new variable which
displays as x but which is distinct from any existing x variable.
Maybe that helps.
> The problem is that mathematical functions are really 2nd class objects
> in Maxima.
Yup.
Robert Dodier