On Jan 15, 7:00 am, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > Maybe Nils has a comment on whether library use of Maxima would make > it easier to work around this problem? I know he's hoping to do > something with this at the Bug Days.
If we use maxima via a library interface and communicate exclusively via strings, then the problem is exactly the same. However, if we move to translating expression trees directly (which becomes a possibility with the library interface) it is much easier to let new sage variables correspond to a "(GENSYM)" [a guaranteed unique symbol] in LISP and Maxima. The prototype on http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7377 already does this. There is no problem working with a var('sin") in that code. It has the slight problem that any question or error from maxima has very low probability of actually referring to any identifiers you can make sense of. You'll have to look up in a dictionary what they correspond to on the sage side.
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