[Maxima] parsing arguments for functions

[Robert Dodier]

On 6/4/09, Richard Fateman <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> you could do this:
> matchdeclare([a,b,c,d],any);
>
> f[Interval(a,b),Interval(b,c)):=fInterval(a,b,c,d)

What?? Maxima complains about function definitions like
f(foo(x)) := ... or f[foo(x)] := .... Did you intend some
pattern matching construct?

Robert Dodier