On May 14, 2009, at 2:43 PM, Gonzalo Tornaria wrote:

> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Robert Bradshaw
> <rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote:
>>
>> On May 14, 2009, at 10:22 AM, Craig Citro wrote:
>>
>>>> I'm currently building/doctesting with (1) in place, and I'll  
>>>> report
>>>> back soon. gen.pyx passes all tests, so I suspect we're probably
>>>> safe.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Doctesting is done, and no troubles -- so I've posted a patch here:
>>>
>>> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6039
>>
>> This is the right fix. Looks good--are you sure we don't use pari's
>> some anywhere else?
>
> Robert,
>
> would it actually make sense to have cython emit an error about
> multiply defined symbols, or symbols which override python defaults,
> instead of silently chosing one over the other?
>
> This would seem to me the right fix, unless I'm missing something  
> obvious...

No, I don't think so. Then it would become even less like Python  
where I can define my own sum and it "silently" gets used instead of  
the Python one. Perhaps we could emit a warning though.

- Robert


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