[Maxima] discontinuos function

[Alexandre Campos]

Dear all,
how can I express  and plot a  function (singular function)  like:

f(x) = <x-a>

where

<x-a> =     0      --------------if x<a
                 (x-a) --------------if x>=0

Thanks in advance,
alexandre

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