On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 at 17:47, Waldek Hebisch <[email protected]> wrote: > > Peter Broadbery wrote: > > > > In aldor 'elt' was renamed to 'apply' - since it can be used for > > things other than data structure like domains. > > So, setelt! had to become something a bit more general as well, and > > set! was chosen. >
> Not very strong motivation, but reasonable. Does this means that > to have agreement we would have to rename 'elt' to 'apply' in > FriCAS? AFAICS there are few uses of 'apply' in FriCAS for > other purposes. > > For complete agreement with aldor, yes. But maybe there's some value in just doing 'set!'. It's fine to have other uses of apply in aldor, For example, one can say apply(foo, x) instead of the shorthand 'foo(x)' > -- > Waldek Hebisch > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/E1icYkg-0002fH-Tt%40hera.math.uni.wroc.pl. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/CAK%3DmBN96yJ5cmNv6i_sCWDV9UadUeTAbUHRGA0k5W%2BpmP3pfdg%40mail.gmail.com.
