2010/3/25 Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com>: > On 03/25/2010 12:53 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >> 2010/3/25 slabbe<sla...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> Hi sage-devel, >>> >>> If I want to draw a 3d point of size 100 in Sage, I do : >>> >>> sage: point((2,3,4), size=100) >>> >>> but for a 2d point, the argument is not the same : >>> >>> sage: point((2,3), pointsize=100) >>> >>> In the ticket #8599 (which needs review), I propose to change >>> ``pointsize`` for ``size`` because I think ``pointsize`` is kind of >>> redundant and ``size`` is not ambiguous since it is an argument of a >>> function called ``point``. >>> >>> If anybody have an counter-argument, please say so before #8599 gets a >>> positive review by somebody! >> >> -1 to this change. >> >> The entire design of the 2d plotting in Sage was from the start meant >> to be consistent >> with Mathematica (just like matplotlib's 2d plotting is designed to be >> similar to MATLAB's). >> In Mathematica, the option is named "PointSize": >> >> http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/PointSize.html >> >> I'm OK with allowing both size and pointsize, but do not deprecate >> pointsize. This will just >> make it harder for Mathematica users to use Sage. > > > I've changed my deprecation patch to a patch which just removes the hint of > deprecation from the docs. I've also added the units for the size argument. > > Thanks,
Cool. I'm fine with having both option names, just like we have both "color" and "rgbcolor" (what mathematica has). William -- 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
