#8821: Adding a section on coercion to the tutorial (guided tour)
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Reporter: SimonKing | Owner: mvngu
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_review
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.7.1
Component: documentation | Keywords: tutorial coercion
Work_issues: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Author: Simon King
Merged: | Dependencies:
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Old description:
> So far, the word "coercion" has only been used twice in the tutorial -
> without explanation or reference. I believe coercion is far too important
> to not cover it in the tutorial, and moreover some pitfalls may be
> confusing for mathematicians, while programmers might confuse it with
> implicit type conversion.
>
> My patch adds such section.
New description:
So far, the word "coercion" has only been used twice in the tutorial -
without explanation or reference. I believe coercion is far too important
to not cover it in the tutorial, and moreover some pitfalls may be
confusing for mathematicians, while programmers might confuse it with
implicit type conversion.
My patch adds such section.
Apply [attachment:trac_8821-tutorial-coercion.patch]
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Comment(by SimonKing):
I have combined the two patches, so that only trac_8821-tutorial-
coercion.patch is relevant now. I re-structured the text slightly, and I
also refer to my worksheet on coercion that is attached to #11490.
Note that the text we are considering here is not about implementing
coercion. The implementation aspect is addressed in #11490.
For the patchbot:
Apply trac_8821-tutorial-coercion.patch
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8821#comment:20>
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