[Maxima] romberg

[Michel Van den Bergh]

>
>  On the other
> hand, it should not be replaced by something that is functionally inferior
> in any way.  I consider failure to support recursive calls to be inferior,
> but I don't see why the qq programs, properly packaged would not allow
> recursion too.
As Robert pointed out, the other programs support correctly support
recursion.
As I pointed out in my earlier email the syntax allowed by romberg:

romberg(romberg(x^2+y^2, x, 0, y), y, 0, 1);

is semantically dubious. I thought it was now agreed upon that 
functions should
evaluate all their arguments, if at all possible, which apparently
romberg does not do.

Michel