[Maxima] rfc: a thin lexical layer for maxima

[Michel Van den Bergh]

Hi,

You are all bored to death by now about the lexical vs dynamic scope
issues! I am still thinking about this and actually hope to do something 
about
it, but currently I need to do other things urgently
(like writing up some papers and preparing a course!).

I also need to brush up my 20 year old lisp experience (I didn't
think I would need *that* ever again:-)

Nevertheless to fix my thought I have written down what I was
thinking of. Look at

www.bertold.org/lexical/whitepaper.txt

I know many of you will not like this proposal. I don't mind since
it is localized and can be implemented in an extension package.
However if you see something I have overlooked (some behaviour
that is obviously wrong) then I will be happy to learn about it.

Michel