> > These are all good reasons... I wish there was a better way than
> > having a predefined list of indeterminates... I could see all sorts of
> > things being screwed up that way.
>
> Such as?

Sorry, I was sort of thinking out loud. Wrong choice of words, and not
what I meant to say. A set of predefined indeterminates seems like a
pretty natural thing to have, in a mathematics software suite. We
should just make sure to explain what's really going on to people.

How would this relate to the polynomial ring naming in 1.5? Will users
confuse our predefined x, and the 'x' given for the name of a variable
in a polynomial ring that might have been declared?

I've created a wiki page for collaboration and discussion about this issue:
http://sage.math.washington.edu:9001/BasicCalculus

It doesn't have very much on it yet, but I'd like to get at the very
least a comprehensive list of guidelines and constraints to work with.

----
Bobby Moretti
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
To post to this group, send email to [email protected]
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel
URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

Reply via email to