[Maxima-discuss] substitution problem

[Eli D. <pu...@el...>]

Hello. The substitution functions (subst, sublis) are not substituting 
for all occurrences of the symbol to be substituted for. My guess is 
that it has something to do with the symbol occurring inside a Lisp 
function call. For example,

(%i1) sublis([n=3],print("f(n)","=",f(n)));
f(n) = f(n)
(%o1) f(3)

It works fine when there isn't a Lips function call in between the 
substitution function and the n. For example,

(%i2) print("f(n)","=",sublis([n=3],f(n)));
f(n) = f(3)
(%o2) f(3)

Is this supposed to happen? And is there a setting to change it? Thanks, Eli