[sage-devel] Re: Notations for actions

2013-08-14 Thread Marc Mezzarobba
Simon King a écrit : > Sage has both left and right actions. I would need to look up the > details, but it is no problem to implement a right action of S2 on S1 > rather than a left action of S1 on S2. Since the mathematical property > of "being an action" is not relevant in the implementation, you

[sage-devel] Re: Notations for actions

2013-08-14 Thread Simon King
Hi Marc, On 2013-08-14, Marc Mezzarobba wrote: >> Do you see what you just did? You use "call notation" for one action, >> i.e., d/dx(x), but use multiplicative notation for the other action, >> i.w., d/dx*x. > > Yes, except that the second one is not an action of S1 on S2 from the > left, but a

[sage-devel] Re: Notations for actions

2013-08-14 Thread Marc Mezzarobba
Hi, Simon King wrote: >>> I think quite often one is in a situation that one has two different >>> sets (rings, groups, ...) S1, S2, such that there is only one action >>> of S1 on S2 from the left, and thus if one has s1 from S1 and s2 >>> from S2, then s1*s2 is not ambiguous. >> >> I guess it de

[sage-devel] Re: Notations for actions

2013-08-14 Thread Simon King
Hi Marc, On 2013-08-14, Marc Mezzarobba wrote: > Simon King wrote: >> I think quite often one is in a situation that one has two different >> sets (rings, groups, ...) S1, S2, such that there is only one action > of >> S1 on S2 from the left, and thus if one has s1 from S1 and s2 from S2, >> the

[sage-devel] Re: Notations for actions

2013-08-14 Thread Marc Mezzarobba
Simon King wrote: > I think quite often one is in a situation that one has two different > sets (rings, groups, ...) S1, S2, such that there is only one action of > S1 on S2 from the left, and thus if one has s1 from S1 and s2 from S2, > then s1*s2 is not ambiguous. I guess it depends what exactl

[sage-devel] Re: Notations for actions

2013-08-13 Thread Simon King
On 2013-08-13, Nicolas M. Thiery wrote: > (2) Provide an easy way for the user to register g*x as shorthand for > the above when he thinks it's ok in his/her context. I think quite often one is in a situation that one has two different sets (rings, groups, ...) S1, S2, such that there is only