On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Richard Fateman <fateman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/26/2013 6:04 AM, Karl-Dieter Crisman wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> . After all, one might have a LOT of things one would want to do with
> hundreds of variables;
>
>
> There is a global symbol that is bound to a list of all the variables used
> so far. This is "values".
>
>
Okay, that's useful.
>
> It would be wonderful if there was some flag I don't know about that
> would just say all variables are complex in the sense that makes the above
> correct!
>
>
> I think the understanding of complex variables is at best spotty, and if
> you want to do "a LOT" of
> things with them you better check out exactly what Maxima does, and
> perhaps even make it work
> with names that have no special properties.
>
>
Thx.