Tim, On December 5, 2005 11:22 PM you wrote: > > Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > > Could somebody enlighten me... Why would an ordinary Axiom > > user ever want to enter LISP commands into Axiom? What would > > be reasonable things that cannot be done in the SPAD interpreter > > itself? > > an ordinary user wouldn't want to do this (which is why it > isn't documented)
I know you know that that is a *very* poor reason for not documenting it! :) > but it is useful for two other class of users, the person > doing maintenance on the interpreter and the advanced spad > programmer who is writing $LISP based functions. > If I set $dalymode then: (xxx ...) is just a shorthand for )lisp (xxx ...) isn't it? So this is just a matter of convenience, not a significant new kind of functionality for the interpreter. But $dalymode cannot be set true always because there is a small possibility that (xxx ...) should really be interpreted as an Axiom expression, right? Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
