On Nov 13, 2009, at 5:30 AM, Burcin Erocal wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:30:01 -0800 (PST)
> "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Could the conclusion be the following?
>> "If you want (and if the realease manager includes corresponding
>> patches), add support for Maxima commands which you need. When python
>> of ginac will be able to replace these commands, these interfaces to
>> Maxima commands will be removed."
>
> I am really reluctant to keep adding functions, since they would have
> to be maintained for a long time because of the deprecation policy.
>
> Let's see if we can quickly come up with a "clean" solution in the
> next couple of days. Then you can add the functionality you need  
> (still
> using maxima if necessary), using the interface that we will maintain
> long term.
>
>
> If this process takes too long, or if you still want to use only  
> maxima
> for this functionality even when we have Sage equivalents, we could
> add a .maxima_methods() function to symbolic expressions which returns
> a class that hosts wrappers to maxima methods. This would prevent
> polluting the namespace of the class Expression, and provide a better
> location to search for this functionality.

How is this not just

sage: mf = maxima(f)
sage: mf.[tab]

which can already be done?

- Robert


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