One way to enhance a package is to add to Maple's context-sensitive menus  some new menu entries which utilize that package's features.

In Maple's Standard GUI, context-sensitive menus (a.k.a. context-menus) appear when the mouse is right-clicked over (input or output) 2D Math expressions.

For a package implemented as a module, new and relevant context-menu entries can be created inside the module's ModuleLoad export. That will cause the new menu entries to be created (automatically...

Large or involved projects may involve Maple modules which rely upon each other. Routines in one module may call routines in another module. Interdependence of modules can have a direct bearing on the available means of successfully utilizing the `use` functionality. In certain situations, some of the ways to utilize the `use` statement can be problematic.

Some such situations, and workarounds, are illustrated below.

The basic description of the `use` statement functionality is,

Everything below is "as far as Maple is concerned".

The following indicates that infinity does not satisfy the property of being real.

> is(infinity,real);
                                     false

But this next pair indicates that infinity is real. They show that infinity satisfies the nonstrict inequality relation equivalent to the 'real' RealRange, from which it would follow that infinity is in the 'real' RealRange.

Following worse-than-good advice can lead to loss of time and to greater misunderstanding. I have noticed, over the past year, a growing proportion of suboptimal responses and advice on the mapleprimes forums.

There are still many fine responses, but slightly incorrect or inefficient (and sometimes outright wrong) responses seem to have been growing as a proportion of the whole. This is probably natural, as the mapleprimes site grows. But some of the ensuing bad effects of it could be avoided.

It would be nice to have a link to Recent posts off the main mapleprimes page that guests see (ie. even when not logged in).

It'd be a pity if the only reason that this is not available is just so that page can show how many new (unread by logged-in user) posts there are in each thread.

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