Hi,

yesterday on IRC I realized I don't understand these terms. :)

x + x  -> 2*x    .... is this evaluation?

x +y, vs.  y+x     ... is this canonicalization?

Is this how everyone understands these terms? If so, we need to fix
SymPy all over. :)

Also I was mistaking canonize and canonicalize:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonicalization


It'd be good if all of us use the same terms for the same thing.

Also, Garry, how are you going to call the method/function, that does
x+x-> 2*x,  -- eval? We used to call it eval, now we call it canonize
(which is completely wrong, see above), so I think we should
switch back to eval.

Ondrej

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