On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 5:10 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>  On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 4:59 AM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>  >  On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Hector Villafuerte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
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>  >  >  On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:53 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
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>  >  > >  In Sage the function is show_identifiers().
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>  >  >  Oh, I misunderstood the question then... my bad. Thanks William,
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>  >  Why not to name it the same as in Matlab?
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>  >  Ondrej
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>  Because I named it the same as in Magma!

Haha, I didn't know that. :)

>  Also, in retrospect, I think Magma's "ShowIdentifiers()" is a far far
>  less obfuscated name than Matlab's cryptics "whos", which frankly
>  looks like a spelling mistake or typo to me.

Agree. The only disadvantage is that it takes longer to type, because
"sho<TAB>" yields

sage: sho
show              show_default      show_identifiers

so I need to type "show_i<TAB>", then <BACKSPACE> and "()<ENTER>".
Actually it also works without the backspace.

Ondrej

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