Hi Chris,

I am sorry for my late reply, I was busy.

> This is very helpful indeed.  By using the mechanism Maple adopts of
> using an initial capital letter for inert/noun forms vs active/verb
> forms there are difficulties.  Look at the mess Maplesoft got into
> with the matrix and Matrix packages.   add and Add referred to the
> packages not being inert, although diff/Diff, sin/Sin etc referred to
> noun forms.  (!)

yes I think Maple is more messy than Mathematica, but I don't really
use either of them.

> What about the inert/noun form of "+"?

What do you mean by an inert from? To be able to represent things in the form:

e = 1+3

not being automatically transformed to e=4 ?

> What about an inert form of a user defined function f(x),   F(x)?

What do you mean exactly here?

> An inbuilt consistent mechanism would appear to me to finesse these
> problems (and others).

Ondrej

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