Re: [Maxima-discuss] A question about parsing: ":lisp #$expr$" is not low-level enough

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

Eduardo,

The #$ macro calls both MEVAL (evaluation) and SIMPLIFYA
(simplification). To just parse a string, try parse_string, e.g.:

(%i5) load(stringproc);
(%o5) C:/maxima-5.45.1/share/maxima/5.45.1/share/stringproc/stringproc.mac
(%i6) :lisp ($parse_string "'a")
((MQUOTE) $A)

parse_string does indeed just construct a string input stream and then
calls MREAD.

Hope this helps,

Robert Dodier