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Moon@MIT-AI 08/12/79 12:43:36
To: (BUG LISPM) at MIT-AI
CC: (BUG MACSYMA) at MIT-AI
Macsyma should not be loaded with INHIBIT-FDEFINE-WARNINGS.  Only by chance
did I discover a new system function it was clobbering.  Any conflicts between
Macsyma files ought to be resolved, since they are making Macsyma bigger on the
10 by duplicating function definitions.  In any case these can be ignored
easily by typing P to the FDEFINE warning.  Any conflicts between Macsyma
and the lisp machine system are BUGS!!! They should be fixed, not ignored.
Generally either the EXTERNAL list or the SHADOW list of the package 
declaration needs to be fixed, depending on whether or not Macsyma is 
supposed to be redefining that function.

I of course have nothing to do with the setup for MACSYMA on the LISP 
machine.  I would like to point out that I am aware of no duplicate 
function definitions in MACSYMA, and that we fix them whenever they 
occur.  (There are cases of macros and functions which intentionally 
have the same names.  Macros are only used at compile time in MACSYMA, 
and duplicating some of them with compatible functions has helped 
greatly when MACSYMA programmers have been careless.  Also, the user 
has a choice sometimes between alternate but similar packages, e.g. 
POIS2 and POIS3.  I believe all of these cases have simple solutions 
on the LISP machine.)