> I'm not sure multimethods alone are enough to solve issues with Sage's > type system (e.g. coercion, where the result of a+b may happen in a > completely new domain) but they could certainly help.
I purposedly said "many", and not "all", nor even "most". The most important feature to a CAS missing in Julia is multiple inheritance, in my opinion. However, Julia multimethods are backed up by a powerful coercion system, so I do not understand the "step back" criticism. Luca -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.