On 26-Sep-07, at 10:13 AM, John Cremona wrote:
> > Nostalgia for Algol68 ! The line > > OP OVER = (INT n,d)RAT: cancel(RAT(n,d)); > > is taken from my implementation of rational numbers so "one half" > could be written > > 1 OVER 2 > > and I could also write > > DET M The past is the present: haskell supports det m, 1 `over` 2, and ocaml often writes x # foo for foo x. Nick --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---