I am against such restrictions, what if I don't care about complex numbers and want to use i as an index variable? What if I want e to stand for an edge?
When I do want to have i^2=-1, I will write the code appropriately, and if I manage to use the same name for two objects I am working with - I think it is my fault, I should resolve it, and avoid repeating it in the future. Andrey On Feb 20, 5:21 pm, Oscar Gerardo Lazo Arjona <algebraicame...@gmail.com> wrote: > Some time ago I suggested in sage-support > (http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/b391...) > > I'd like to propose that certain special names should be protected so > that they could not become variable names (for example pi, e, and i) > > if by accident you assign them like: > > e=factorial(10) > > and then you need to need to use e with it's standard meaning, like > > e^100 > > you will have a very hard to spot error ( (factorial(10)^100). > > In that occation I did not create a ticket, but now I have: > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8317 > > and the thread is better placed in sage-support > > thanks! > > Oscar -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
