> > Shall the Euler constant, the imaginary number, the numerical 
> > approximation and the R interpreter be locally diabled ? What about 
> > 2*i*pi*j ? 
>
> If I could do things over, then none of those would be in the global 
> namespace by default.   This is very difficult to change now, due to 
> the assumptions in our docstrings, among other things... 
>
>

Well, do having those in the global namespace help us fulfill the mission 
statement?  To my mind, they definitely do.

Example: 
http://reference.wolfram.com/language/tutorial/MathematicalConstants.html
They do have the difference between () and [] and between upper/lowercase 
that makes some of that easier (though probably also more annoying).

- kcrisman
 

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