User Guide

7.3 Working with Maple Expressions
This section describes how to manipulate expressions using context menus,
palette items, and the underlying commands.
To display the context menu for an expression:
• Right-click (Control-click, for Macintosh) the expression.
To view the palettes:
• From the View menu, select Palettes, and then Expand Docks.
Low-Level Operations
Expression Types
A Maple type is a broad class of expressions that share common properties.
Maple contains over 200 types, including:
• `+`
• boolean
• constant
• integer
• Matrix
• trig
• truefalse
For more information and a complete list of Maple types, refer to the ?type
help page.
The type commands return true if the expression satisfies the type check.
Otherwise, they return false.
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