Re: [Maxima-discuss] weird behavior of apply

[Kris K. <kat...@gm...>]

On 09/29/2014 02:39 PM, Dimiter Prodanov wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I tried this particular syntax because I want to pass named arguments.
> In my hypothesis some of the arguments may not have been assigned.
> 
> i.e.  for a function f(x,y,z,w) I would like to pass only for example
> [x=1, z=2] in the code.
> 
> I don't know if this is possible in Maxima. at and apply looked like
> good candidates for this scenario.
> 

Maybe you want to use an assoc list:

(%i2) f([args]) := map(lambda([x], assoc(x, args)), ['a,'b,'c,'d])$

(%i3) f(c=charlie,a=alpha);
(%o3) [alpha,false,charlie,false]

Cheers,
Kris Katterjohn