Apologies for the pedantry, but unless the indeterminates so generated are free of all bugs, then strictly speaking this is not immaculate conception; it is spontaneous generation, or perhaps virginal conception. ;-)
john perry On Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 6:52:19 AM UTC-5, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: > > Defining a symbolic function seems to declare its arguments. Case > illustrated in this sagecell example > <https://sagecell.sagemath.org/?z=eJwrSi1OLdHQ5OXyTDG0BTGLM_LL4zNTUvNKMtMyU4uKNTSBkmn5-RoFOok6SZq2BXEaibqGmloahroFmnEaSUA2SLMRbs1ASQVdBaD5ACSeIG0=&lang=sage&interacts=eJyLjgUAARUAuQ==> > : > > reset() > Id1=set(show_identifiers()) > foo(p,a,b)=p^(a-1)*(1-p)^(b-1) > Id2=set(show_identifiers()) > Id2 - Id1 > > which happily prints : > > {'Id1', 'a', 'b', 'foo', 'p'} > > > Is this expected ? > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
