On 8/20/07, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My first impression of this idea is mostly negative, but I'm
> interested to see where this goes.
>
> Will SAGElite use the preparser? That would be a problem if Integer
> (2) appears somewhere, and Integer is not defined. If you want
> calculus/plotting then presumably you want people to be able to enter
> x^3 + x + 2, which means they have to enter x**3 + x + 2, unless the
> preparser is available. So you can either
>
> (a) not let people use ^
> (b) redefine Integer to be int
> (c) have a different preparser for SAGElite which doesn't wrap things
> in Integer calls
Probably there wouldn't be a preparser, but in case there
were, (b) makes the most sense. The primary audiences are:
1. current python users -- people using python already for
something else -- they don't
want the preparser, and might very well have no interest in
mathematics either.
2. people who want a GUI for Magma, GAP, or some other program.
-- William
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