Just to add another view, I can never remember all the different function names, so I find it very convenient to have namespace pollution as Martin Rubey calls it. If I look for a certain plot function, I would like to be able to type plot and then hit the tab button to see all the possible variations. Much better than having to remember that it was called parametric_plot. On the other hand, it would be a bit unfair to break people's previous code where they used parametric_plot because we decide to replace parametric_plot by plot_parametric. Backwards compatibility is a big issue in my opinion and I don't quite understand the problem about having different names for doing the same thing until we run out of letters to create new functions. :)
Stan On Oct 27, 9:02 pm, Martin Rubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, the problem is namespace pollution. Already now, if I hit tab after x, > I > get roughly 100 possible completions. In a strongly typed environment, this > is > unnecessary. I do not see any benefit in having more than onenameto do one > thing. Of course, if the argument types are the same you will probably need > to > have several functions. > > Martin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
