Re: [Maxima-discuss] Should polish-like expressions be documented?

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

On Wed, Jan 1, 2025 at 9:51 AM Stavros Macrakis <mac...@gm...> wrote:

> (%i2) lreduce ("/", args ({a, b, c, d}));

> (Not sure why it writes args ({a, b, c, d}) instead of simply [a, b, c, d] .)

Haha, good catch. Trawling back through the commits shows that the
example was originally lreduce( "/", set(a, b, c, d)), but at some
point, early on, lreduce was changed to require the second argument to
be a list. I updated the example to change the second argument to a
list via args; that was about 20 years ago. How time flies! I might
have said that before. I was probably trying to ensure that the result
would be exactly the same, since, strictly speaking, it depends on how
the set elements are ordered.

Anyway the args({...}) construction is unnecessary, as noted; I'll
change to just be an explicit list.

Happy new year!

Robert