Jaime Villate <villate at fe.up.pt> writes:
> It is the second package's author who must change the symbol. He
> should avoid variable names starting with % which is conventionally
> used for constants. That's a very easy rule to follow in order to
> avoid that kind of conflict.
I agree, but I think there is a slight conflict with wxMaxima. When I
last used it (several years ago), I seem to remember that you could call
variables names like %alpha, %beta etc. to get it to display ?, ? and so
on. Neat, but conflicts with "names starting with percent denote
constants".
Rupert
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