Right now pulling in group theory may end up pulling in calculus. There are similar issues all over with really tight coupling between subsystems. It ought to be possible to use group theory (maybe without a feature or two) without calculus and vice versa.
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Nick Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 1-Apr-08, at 10:21 AM, Gary Furnish wrote: > > > Maybe. I see two real issues. > > 1) Sage right now has really bad global namespace pollution issues > > that make it very hard to import just one or two files. I don't > > see why this shouldn't be fixable, it just needs someone to work on > > it. This would not be that hard, and would probably catch some > > subtle import bugs in the process. > > Warning: I'm not expert in this area. AFAICT, the Sage library > itself exports nothing globally -- it's all in a startup line similar > to "from sage.all_cmdline import *". You might be talking about > another scenario, though. > > 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
