[sage-devel] Re: Regarding range and '..' operator

2007-09-20 Thread Jaap Spies
William Stein wrote: > Robert: >> I think using [] to specify lists is clean and pythonic. We are >> basically extending the grammar >> list_display ::= >> "[" [listmaker] "]" > > Yep. It make sense. It's possibly not even completely unreasonable > that this notation could eventua

[sage-devel] Re: Regarding range and '..' operator

2007-09-20 Thread William Stein
On 9/19/07, Nick Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am going to wait a while to see what brews up, even though > > the majority vote was against [a..b]. > > > > At a minimum I would like to implement that for the preparser (or > > have somebody else do so), and see what it feels like to us

[sage-devel] Re: Regarding range and '..' operator

2007-09-20 Thread Robert Bradshaw
I've created a trac ticket. http://www.sagemath.org:9002/sage_trac/ticket/702 On Sep 20, 2007, at 12:43 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > > On Sep 19, 2007, at 11:48 PM, Nick Alexander wrote: > >> On 19-Sep-07, at 8:09 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >>> >>> On 9/19/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECT

[sage-devel] Re: Regarding range and '..' operator

2007-09-20 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Sep 19, 2007, at 11:48 PM, Nick Alexander wrote: > On 19-Sep-07, at 8:09 PM, William Stein wrote: > >> >> On 9/19/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I am rather fond of the '..' operator, though I can see why people >>> wouldn't want to add it as an official part of sage. Th

[sage-devel] Re: Regarding range and '..' operator

2007-09-20 Thread Nick Alexander
On 19-Sep-07, at 11:48 PM, Nick Alexander wrote: > > > On 19-Sep-07, at 8:09 PM, William Stein wrote: > >> >> On 9/19/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I am rather fond of the '..' operator, though I can see why people >>> wouldn't want to add it as an official part of sage.

[sage-devel] Re: Regarding range and '..' operator

2007-09-19 Thread Nick Alexander
On 19-Sep-07, at 8:09 PM, William Stein wrote: > > On 9/19/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am rather fond of the '..' operator, though I can see why people >> wouldn't want to add it as an official part of sage. This got me to > > I think the decision about whether or not

[sage-devel] Re: Regarding range and '..' operator

2007-09-19 Thread William Stein
On 9/19/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am rather fond of the '..' operator, though I can see why people > wouldn't want to add it as an official part of sage. This got me to I think the decision about whether or not to include something like this is definitely not decided y