> 
> Waldek Hebisch <hebi...@math.uni.wroc.pl> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> | I would discourage using this form of macro definition -- it
> | just wastes potentially valuable syntax for trivial purpose.
> | AFAICS there are no uses of 'macro' in algebra.
> 
> For what it is worth, OpenAxiom leans in the opposite direction: the
> recommended style is 
> 
>      macro m == expr
> 
> over
> 
>     m ==> expr
> 
> hoping that in the future, ==> will be deprecated and removed.
> There is no grouping though.

 
Any reason for this choice?  'xx ==>' is used a lot in algebra
and is shorter than 'macro xx ==' so I would expect some strong
argument for such change.

-- 
                              Waldek Hebisch
hebi...@math.uni.wroc.pl 

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