[Maxima] Stupidity and cleverness

[Jay Belanger]

"Stavros Macrakis" <macrakis at alum.mit.edu> writes:
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> We could be inspired by Lisp, and make false == [], rest([])=[] /
> false, etc.  (a pun which I take advantage of all the time in Lisp
> programming). We could be inspired by C, and make [] / false equal 0,
> and have ar[234234] (where ar is a declared array) inspect some memory
> location. We could be inspired by Perl, and have 23+"45" = 68,
> true+false=0, etc.
>
> They all allow you to do "clever things", but I don't want them in Maxima.

Perhap I missed a thread; did someone suggest they be a part of Maxima?

Jay