Re: [Maxima-discuss] index properties and define/funmake

[Stavros M. <mac...@gm...>]

The argument I made was that you yourself had given lots of good reasons
that no common programming languages support them. Direct quote:

As Fateman points out, no common programming languages support subscripted
formal variables, *for all the good reasons you [Dodier] give.*


On Fri, Jan 9, 2026 at 2:35 PM Robert Dodier <rob...@gm...>
wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 9, 2026 at 9:40 AM Stavros Macrakis <mac...@gm...>
> wrote:
>
> > etc. Basically, it complicates the semantics for no purpose that has
> been articulated yet.
>
> Well, I am fully aware that it complicates things. But that's not the
> argument you were making before, when you were talking about the lack
> of other languages implementing that feature as if that's a reason for
> Maxima to forgo it.
>
> Robert
>