Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On Dec 14, 2009, at 11:43 AM, Carlos Córdoba wrote: > >> I have to agree with Marshall, because it could be confusing for new >> sage users that come from python to see such a different syntax >> meaning. >> >> But what about the Mathematica syntax? Could it be adopted by sage? > > The Mathematica syntax is (in my opinion) much less Pythonic than > using "->" in this context, even if the latter will have another > meaning in Python 3.
Does the CAS syntax really mean Python "lambda" though? I would think that using -> in Maple would define something symbolic which one could manipulate...more like an anonymous f(x) = x**2 than "lambda x: x**2". For the latter one cannot find symbolic derivatives and so on. -- Dag Sverre -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
