#7482: provide a mode so that undeclared variables magically spring into
existence
and object oriented notation is not necessary
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Reporter: was | Owner: tbd
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.3
Component: misc | Keywords:
Work_issues: | Author:
Reviewer: | Merged:
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Old description:
> College teacher often say that by far the biggest obstruction to people
> switching from Maple to Sage is that:
>
> (1) symbolic variables don't magically spring into existence when used
>
> (2) one has to use object oriented notation---foo.bar(...)---to access
> methods of an object.
New description:
College teacher often say that by far the biggest obstruction to people
switching from Maple to Sage is that:
(1) symbolic variables don't magically spring into existence when used
(2) one has to use object oriented notation---foo.bar(...)---to access
methods of an object.
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Comment(by was):
I'm attaching a patch that fully implements this in the notebook, via a
command automatic_names(True). This depends on trac #7483. I could
not figure out how to implement this on the command line without making
potentially major changes to IPython, which is a bad idea at this point.
So this will be notebook only. Since the target audience is newbie
calculus freshman, restricting to the notebook probably isn't much of a
constraint.
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7482#comment:2>
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