Constant of integration (Was Re: sqrt(x)*sqrt(x))

Okay, I take back my statement that the missing  + c should be an error. I 
was being disrespectful. As far as my attitude is concerned I think it is 
getting better since I am going to school again so my life is not as bad as 
it was.  I make less posts than I used to.  I don't have the time.  It is 
true that some of my posts were disrespectful.  I am sorry for that.

I am in school now which is something real and positive in my life which I 
take very seriously.  Sorry about my general frustration level with this 
subject of sqrt(x).  It is due to my limited experience.  I have only 
written one thing for Maxima, and that is pw.mac.  When I wrote pw.mac I 
only cared about real inputs.  If it ever works for complex numbers it is an 
accident or due to other people's efforts on getting Maxima to work with 
complex inputs and outputs.  I certainly was not thinking along those lines. 
So proper credit is due here.

I did not make the sqrt(x) function and my preferences are obviously not the 
final word.  I am only talking about how I would like it to work.  It does 
not have to work that way, just because I like it to work that way 
obviously.  Additionally I only have ideas about how sqrt(x) should work 
when x is real.  I have not put much thought into the complex case.  Someone 
pointed out that I was dumb or lazy or something like that for not learning 
Lisp.  I completely agree.  I learned Maxima's programming language easily 
enough.  I had motivation to learn it I guess since I always liked it.  I 
don't have such motivation to learn Lisp, I guess because I don't like it. 
I am not saying it is a bad language.  I don't know enough about languages 
to understand how to judge them.  Same for people too by the way.

Rich