On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Bill Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Waldek Hebisch wrote: >> >> I would rather completly get rid of **. Duplication is confusing, >> keeping them different causes confusion, but making them equvalent >> also will cause confusion (think of sombody trying to give a new >> definition to ** but use old ^). >> > > +1 I do not see any reason to retain two names for the same thing. > Given the limited number of useful syntactic combinations for infix > operators in Axiom, I think it is better to allow ** to be easily > re-used. > > Regards, > Bill Page.
Certainly removal is best is you're confident that it does not cause hasle for users. Do you have a count of the uses of "**" versus "^" in the algebras? That may give some idea. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ open-axiom-devel mailing list open-axiom-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-axiom-devel
