Re: [Maxima-discuss] progress report on lexical symbols stuff

[Raymond T. <toy...@gm...>]

On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 1:27 PM Robert Dodier <rob...@gm...>
wrote:

>
> The lexical symbols implementation is stable enough at this point that
> I think it is meaningful to talk about how it would be rolled out in
> Maxima. I am thinking that lexical symbols is enough of a difference
> in the way things work that the major version number should be bumped
> from 5 to 6, so that Maxima 6.nnn has lexical symbols while Maxima
> 5.nnn doesn't. Assuming this lexical symbol stuff actually gets off
> the ground, I don't know whether we or anyone would want to continue
> Maxima 5.nnn releases, although it doesn't seem out of the question.
>
I haven't looked at lexical symbols code yet, but I definitely agree with
bumping the major version number.

I also think it would be good to do one final 5.x release before bumping to
6.  I think there's been a fair number of changes since 5.47 was released.

I don't think we have enough people to manage both 5.x and 6.x; I would
rather people spend time on 6.x if we had to choose.

>
> I'd like to ask interested parties to take a look at the branch
> lexical-symbols-take-3 (which may be superseded by take-4 at some
> point). Any comments or questions are welcome.
>
> best
>
> Robert
>
> PS.
> pytranslate needs to be rewritten because it was designed to
> accurately reproduce dynamic binding in the translated Python code.
> The good news is that assuming lexical binding will make translated
> code much more like it would be written by hand. I'm not sure what the
> problem in simplify_sum is, but I'll continue to look at it.
>

Oh, what about the current translator?  Does that need to be reworked
because things are now lexical?


-- 
Ray