I don't really like the idea of "modules that imitate various environments", i.e. I don't think it's possible or desirable for us to try to look specifically like any other system. Mathematica semantics are so different from SAGE's, it would be misleading to suggest anything like that. But I *do* like the idea of the clean initial namespace, which gets subsequently polluted on demand when requested by the user.
david On Jul 11, 2007, at 7:15 AM, Hamptonio wrote: > > Perhaps it would help to start with a fairly clean namespace and then > have some modules which would imitate various environments. So for > example, there might be a simple command like: > > set_style('mathematica') > > which would define the N() function, and some other favorite > mathematica functions. Conceivably it would even change the behavior > of symbolic objects so that 1.0*sin(1) would evaluate to a numerical > answer, although that seems like more of a pain to implement. > > -Marshall > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---