Re: [Maxima-discuss] Use Lisp complex numbers in Maxima?

[Robert D. <rob...@gm...>]

On 2016-04-01, Stavros Macrakis <mac...@al...> wrote:

> I don't think mathematics says anything about how to use the features of a
> programming language to build a new abstraction. If Maxima were written in
> C, would you give users access to untyped pointers? (Hmm, scary to think
> that you might...)

Ha, don't tempt me. Clearly the answer is yes, if untyped pointers have
any algebraic properties of interest ... 8^)

best

Robert Dodier