On Jul 10, 2007, at 2:54 PM, William Stein wrote: > On 7/10/07, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] >> But I *do* like the idea of the clean initial >> namespace, which gets subsequently polluted on demand when >> requested by >> the user. > > I do not think this should be the default for everybody, because it > is less user friendly. Many people might be annoyed by having to type > > from sage.all import plot
Just to keep this ball rolling around a bit longer, I don't think that David's suggestion necessarily leads to this. It's one thing to have SAGE functionality at the ready at startup. It's another to have a lot of "optional" environmentally friendly names cluttering up the namespace. This started with the discussion of predefining the "symbolic calculus" variables by default. I think that has been the thrust of most of the comments so far. Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large Institute for the Absorption of Federal Funds -------- If you're not confused, You're not paying attention -------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
