Carl Witty wrote: > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Jason Grout > <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: >> William Stein wrote: >>> Well then we disagree. There is a very standard convention in math to >>> have the x axis in one spot, then the y-axis. >> What happens when you have variables u and v? Or a and b? Or t and s >> (oops, I mean s and t; I forgot the alphabetical order; see? it's easy >> to mess up; but t is often the x-axis, regardless of what the other >> variable is called, even if it is alphabetically smaller... :). What >> about variables some_long_name and some_long_mame? It's much harder >> then to figure out which gets magically picked as the x-axis. > > So as a compromise, we could add another special case: plots that want a > two-argument function will also accept an expression in the variables > x and y, but for expressions in any other variables the user has to > specify the axes.
Thanks for trying to come up with a compromise. However, I think special-casing the variables "x" and "y" would be way more confusing than either of the options. Thanks, Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
