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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