Re: [Maxima-discuss] Stop simplifying a subexpression

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

On Thu, Aug 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM Michael Gough
<inn...@gm...> wrote:
>
> I need to prevent maxima from maxima from simplifying a subexpression. Let’s say I have x+x.
>
> Try as I might, I can not keep it from becoming 2x.

Mike, take a look at a little package I wrote called superq (for
superquote). You can find it in the folder robert-dodier/superq at:
https://github.com/maxima-project-on-github/maxima-packages

You can load the superq.lisp file there and then you can say stuff
like superq(1 + 1) and it stays unsimplified. It's kind of clumsy but
maybe it's workable.

One thing that I see now that didn't get implemented is a way to unbox
a superquoted expression so that it just becomes ordinary again. If
you're interested, I can try to figure it out.

Simplification and pattern matching and all that stuff is a lot of
fun; if you say more about what you're doing maybe I can provide some
ideas.

Robert