Subject: Seeking areas of little or weak documentation
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:35:27 -0600
On 3/20/11, Sol Lederman <sol.lederman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I would like to see an entry on every single constant, variable and
>> function that Maxima knows anything about,
>> showing exactly what Maxima knows about it.
>
> How would one go about finding that information?
There isn't really any way to do it except by deriving it from
the source code: for every user-visible function,
scan the code to see which user-visible special (i.e., global)
variables are referenced. That much could be automated.
Determining the effect of each special variable can only
accomplished by reading the code.
The good news is that Lisp isn't all that complicated a
programming language. Code = data and everything is
an expression (more or less).
HTH, & thanks for your interest.
Robert Dodier