On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Carl Witty <carl.wi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Yann <yannlaiglecha...@gmail.com> wrote: >> or print the error digit 4.?1 (expicit is better than implicit, >> etc :) ) > > Well, again this was an explicit decision; the thinking was that if > somebody saw 1.234567? they might be able to guess approximately what > it means without reading the documentation, but 1.234567?1 is more > confusing and less likely to have somebody correctly guess what it > means. > > What do other people think? > > Carl
I'm not voting on anything, but when my undergrad students in the Sage class I'm teaching learned about RIF, they all nearly uniformly thought they had made a mistake when they got output that contained a "?". -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
