2008/10/28 Stan Schymanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Just to add another view, I can never remember all the different > function names, so I find it very convenient to have namespace > pollution as Martin Rubey calls it. If I look for a certain plot > function, I would like to be able to type plot and then hit the tab > button to see all the possible variations. Much better than having to > remember that it was called parametric_plot. On the other hand, it > would be a bit unfair to break people's previous code where they used > parametric_plot because we decide to replace parametric_plot by > plot_parametric. Backwards compatibility is a big issue in my opinion > and I don't quite understand the problem about having different names > for doing the same thing until we run out of letters to create new > functions. :) >
sage: [com for com in dir() if 'plot' in com] ['contour_plot', 'eulers_method_2x2_plot', 'gnuplot', 'gnuplot_console', 'implicit_plot', 'list_plot', 'list_plot3d', 'matrix_plot', 'networkx_plot', 'parametric_plot', 'parametric_plot3d', 'plot', 'plot3d', 'plot_slope_field', 'plot_vector_field', 'plotkin_bound_asymp', 'plotkin_upper_bound', 'polar_plot'] John Cremona > Stan > > > > On Oct 27, 9:02 pm, Martin Rubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Well, the problem is namespace pollution. Already now, if I hit tab after >> x, I >> get roughly 100 possible completions. In a strongly typed environment, this >> is >> unnecessary. I do not see any benefit in having more than onenameto do one >> thing. Of course, if the argument types are the same you will probably need >> to >> have several functions. >> >> Martin > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
