On Monday, November 26, 2012 3:54:52 PM UTC, Keshav Kini wrote: > Well, you said yourself that if you're not a GAP user then E() will not > be intuitive.
If you have a name that is more intuitive or accustomed to more users name than "E" then please do share! Also, if you would have never guessed that E is the universal cyclotomics constructor then that is perfectly fine. Not everybody will discover things in the same way. Nothing changes for you if you don't use E or override it with something else in the global namespace. The question should be: * do we have a more concise / easier to discover name than "E"? * is there something more important that should be bound to "E"? So far I've only seen the NIMBY argument. > What percentage of Sage users are previous GAP users and > will try E(3) first? Actually, even if someone is a GAP user, will they > expect functions to be the same in Sage as they are in GAP? A bunch of > things aren't. > > -Keshav > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. 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. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
