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

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