Re: [Axiom-developer] Axisp news

[Ralf Hemmecke]

> Yes, constants may contain mutable data.  But that's just as in other
> languages.  It is true that you can say
>
> l: List Integer == [1,2,3];
> l.1 := 4;
>
> but in my opinion, you are not really modifying l, but rather l.1, and that's a
> different story.

And I would even need mutable constants. I want to define a powerseries

y = 1 + x * y*y

as a constant. The only thing I want a user then to do is to ask for 
coefficients. But in order to provide such an infinite constant I need a 
way to compute it without having the compiler run infinitely long.

Ralf