Historically this change was introduced because of the Aldor compiler. There was a clash of the use of the symbols. I had to rewrite code to get Scratchpad (Axiom) and Asharp (Aldor) to work together.
On Saturday, April 22, 2023 at 3:19:32 PM UTC-4 Waldek Hebisch wrote: > For many years internally Spad compiler and interpreter renamed > '%' to '$' and internally used '$'. I have now commited a patch > that disables this renaming so that '%' from source is internally > represented by itself, without renaming. This should slightly > simplify structure of Spad compiler and interpreter, but main > gain should be in debugging: Lisp data structures should be > more similar to Spad source, so easier to interpret. > > There is also related cost: patch touches a lot of places in > interp subdirectory and potentially may introduce bugs. > > -- > Waldek Hebisch > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/783e527c-5071-40b8-90f6-020623b4b07fn%40googlegroups.com.
