On 2013-07-30, Jaime Villate <villate at fe.up.pt> wrote:
> Well, wxmaxima, sage and any other projects that use Maxima should
> follow the rules that Maxima developers has been using long before those
> projects appeared.
There aren't any such rules, so how could they follow them?
There is nothing in the code to force names beginning with % to be
constants; there is no requirement that constants begin with %; there
is no documentation to suggest % be used only for constants.
(And before anybody suggests doing any of that, let me mention that
I'm against it.) Some existing packages, written by long-standing
Maxima developers, use % names for things other than constants.
Do you still want to claim there is a "rule" ?
best
Robert Dodier