On Sep 10, 2009, at 12:13 PM, Stan Schymanski wrote: > I wonder if it would be worthwhile allowing the user to set the > defaults > for every function. We had the discussion about the log vs. ln > notation, > latex representations and a few others I don't remember any more. > Quite > a few of these discussions can't be resolved once and forever, simply > because they are a matter of convention in different fields or user > preference. If we allowed the user to set the defaults for each > function, e.g. set_default(solve, solution_dict = True), some of these > discussions would never have to reappear again. Otherwise, I am sure > that they will reappear again and again, for different functions, or > even for the same ones, when the most recent threads addressing these > issues become too old to be found easily in Google Groups. > > I have no idea how hard this would be to implement, though!
One problem with too much customization is that it makes debugging and sharing code a lot harder. I really don't like the idea of having to use someone else's settings to use someone else's code. Issues like ln vs log for output aren't as big of a deal, but the same function returning completely different kinds of output is potentially incompatible. - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
