[Maxima] maxima - rules and patterns

[Robert Dodier]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Stavros Macrakis <macrakis at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

>  I must be missing something here.  Why is derivace sometimes linear
>  and sometimes not?

Well, I think the goal is to reimplement the rules for derivatives,
but under control of the user, so that only one rule is applied
at a time.

A rule for linearity could also be constructed via defrule,
in which case the declare(..., linear) and remove(..., linear)
stuff isn't needed.

Robert