On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Tim Lahey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Dec 3, 2008, at 11:15 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote:
>>>
>>
>> This requires good working knowledge of python style, which is even
>> rarer than good working knowledge of English :).
>>
>> Of all the options, I think passing a keyword like "unevaluated=True"
>> is the best one so far. It's certainly going to be the less common
>> desired behavior, and I think.
>>
>> sage: latex(integral(x+x, x, unevaluated=True))
>> '\int 2x dx'
>>
>> is natural despite having simplified the x+x.
>>
>
> +1
>
> This fits with my previous suggestion. A named option ensures that it
> will only be called if explicitly asked for. However, we need to have
> a command to evaluate it at a later point in the calculations.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tim.
>
In Sage right now one can do this:
sage: a = function('integrate')(x+x,x)
sage: print a._repr_(simplify=False)
integrate(x + x, x)
This probably has some bearing on this discussion....
William
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