I vehemently oppose this. -1
I've used pi for: partitions, p[i] where p is a list, etc. e can be a small error term, a sign, an exponent i is the best index variable name ever invented, hands down. That said, I was opposed to implicit multiplication, too. If this is made into a "mode", then that's fine by me. On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Oscar Gerardo Lazo Arjona <algebraicame...@gmail.com> wrote: > Some time ago I suggested in sage-support > (http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/b391ed6bd14cdfd0) > > I'd like to propose that certain special names should be protected so that > they could not become variable names (for example pi, e, and i) > > if by accident you assign them like: > > e=factorial(10) > > and then you need to need to use e with it's standard meaning, like > > e^100 > > you will have a very hard to spot error ( (factorial(10)^100). > > In that occation I did not create a ticket, but now I have: > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8317 > > and the thread is better placed in sage-support > > thanks! > > Oscar > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
