On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Nick Alexander wrote:
>> I'm all for a special mode, but to do this by default would be backwards
>> incompatible and yet another incompatibility from Python.
>
> I'm -1 for a special mode, but I am +1 for keeping the default to be like
> Python. Out of curiosity,
I'm all for a special mode, but to do this by default would be
backwards incompatible and yet another incompatibility from Python.
I'm -1 for a special mode, but I am +1 for keeping the default to be
like Python. Out of curiosity, does anyone use the special mode that
transforms "a b" -> "
On Feb 20, 2010, at 5:46 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
William Stein wrote:
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Tom Boothby
wrote:
I vehemently oppose this.
-1
OK, I'm with you that this will not be on by default. As you
suggest
below, this is something that can (and will) be made an option
William Stein wrote:
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Tom Boothby wrote:
I vehemently oppose this.
-1
OK, I'm with you that this will not be on by default. As you suggest
below, this is something that can (and will) be made an optional mode.
I personally think the default should be to p
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Tom Boothby wrote:
> I vehemently oppose this.
>
> -1
>
OK, I'm with you that this will not be on by default. As you suggest
below, this is something that can (and will) be made an optional mode.
We'll have several -- implicit multiplication, automatic variable
I vehemently oppose this.
-1
I've used pi for: partitions, p[i] where p is a list, etc.
e can be a small error term, a sign, an exponent
i is the best index variable name ever invented, hands down.
That said, I was opposed to implicit multiplication, too. If this is
made into a "mode", then tha
Some time ago I suggested in sage-support
(http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/b391ed6bd14cdfd0)
I'd like to propose that certain special names should be protected so
that they could not become variable names (for example pi, e, and i)
if by accident you assign th
