On 12 ene, 21:34, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Oscar Gerardo Lazo Arjona
>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > wouldn't it be a good idea to hard-code certain mathematical expressions
> > into sage
> > like pi, I , and e as sage additional keywords so that they could not be
> > variable names?
>
> Yes.

Wow! I was almost sure I would recieve an explanation why that was
impossible/a bad idea. :)

> Sage will soon have a similar mode so that undefined vars magically
> spring into existence *and* you can call methods using functional
> notation, which is what that thread linked to above is about.

That is great!

> I do not think any of this should be on by *default*.       However,
> it should be a simple option to turn any/all of this on with an easy
> short command.

Why not? The point is save trouble to the newbies. It is no big
difference if
instead of telling them "be careful not to use e as a variable" you
tell them
"if you're going to use e as a variable, then use X option"
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