On Aug 27, 8:29 am, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > Usually the dummy variables (like in solve()) don't have this > problem. I don't think they have a ? in front of them, though. It > would be possible to add this to the Maxima parser, I suppose.
In Maxima a symbol such as foo is represented by the Lisp symbol $FOO. Symbols lacking the leading $ are displayed w/ a question mark. e.g. FOO in Lisp = ?foo in Maxima. A symbol such as ?g12345 is a so-called gensym -- a symbol which has a name different than any other existing symbol, and not interned (i.e. not in any namespace). Uninterned symbols act differently; in particular you can't just type its name to refer to it, since that creates an interned symbol. HTH Robert Dodier -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
