On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:56:45 -0800, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> A new behaviour just cropped up in SAGE....
>
> If I have a .sage script containing the line
>
> time = float(time)
>
> something in there decides to treat this as timing the line "=
> float(time)". I don't know if this is the preparser or what. Apparently
> it didn't used to do this because I haven't changed my script and it
> only just starting doing this now. I guess someone updated the code to
> recognise timing commands in indented blocks.
>
> Is this behaviour going to be permanent? i.e. should I just change the
> variable name, or is this considered a bug?
>
Hey that was my fix to a bug that was reported recently. I.e., people
complained
that "time" didn't work in scripts. Now it does. I think you should change
your code and view "time" as a reserved word (along with "load" and "attach").
That's no worse than MAGMA:
magma ...
>> time := 5;
^
User error: bad syntax
-- William
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