On 5/17/07, Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I am not so sure. Moving it up to Element means that it shows up in
> > tab-completion (polluting the method list) even though it is not supported
> > for most Elements.
> >
> > Martin
> >
> You could say it is supported on all elements. It just returns self if
> there is no substitution to
> be done:
> sage: 5.subs(y=10)
> 5
>
> This is precisely what would happen in 5 came from maxima
> (maxima('5')).I agree. Also, if you think about it there are a huge number of different elements that do support some sort of notion of substitution. I think Michel's suggestion is pretty good. -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://www.williamstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
