#15071: Make it easy to have automatic numerical evaluation of symbolic 
functions
on inexact input
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   Reporter:  eviatarbach  |            Owner:
       Type:  enhancement  |           Status:  new
   Priority:  major        |        Milestone:  sage-5.12
  Component:  symbolics    |         Keywords:
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 This ticket is for making it easy to have symbolic functions automatically
 evaluate on inexact input. This is already the behaviour of most symbolic
 functions and as such it would be good to have a standard way of
 implementing it.

 This ticket modifies `Function._eval_default` to accept an arbitrary
 number of arguments. To have the numeric evaluation work, `_eval_default`
 can be assigned to `_eval_`, or it can be called from within `_eval_` and,
 if it returns `None`, leaves opportunity for exact simplification. For
 example,

 {{{
 sage: from sage.symbolic.function import BuiltinFunction
 sage: class Test(BuiltinFunction):
 ....:     def __init__(self):
 ....:         BuiltinFunction.__init__(self, 'test', nargs=1)
 ....:     def _evalf_(self, x, parent):
 ....:         return 0.5
 ....:     def _eval_(self, x):
 ....:         y = self._eval_default(x)
 ....:         if y:
 ....:             return y
 ....:         else:
 ....:             return 3
 sage: test = Test()
 sage: test(1.3)
 0.500000000000000
 sage: test(pi)
 3
 }}}

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/15071>
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