[Maxima] Property maps over lists for functions

[Robert Dodier]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Dieter Kaiser<drdieterkaiser at web.de> wrote:

> Is it of interest to support this feature? Comments?

"Distributes over" seems like an algebraic property to me.
I'd rather do it like this:

declare (foo, distributes_over (bar));

foo (bar (a, b, c));
 => bar (foo (a), foo (b), foo (c));

bar could be any operator, not just "[".

best

Robert