[Maxima] common lisp package system

James Amundson amundson@users.sourceforge.net
Sun, 18 Apr 2004 17:30:35 -0500


On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 15:02, C Y wrote:
> I seem to remember hearing some talk on the list a while back about
> whether it made sense or not for Maxima to make use of the common lisp
> package system to make things a bit more well behaved.  Did we ever
> come to any conclusions about that?

Yes, there was some discussion about putting all user-defined symbols in
a maxima-user package. Although it sounds like a good idea, nobody has
produced a complete implementation. I am all for it, but it isn't on the
top of my list of things to do.

--JIm