#8821: Adding a section on coercion to the tutorial (guided tour)
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Reporter: SimonKing | Owner: mvngu
Type: enhancement | Status: positive_review
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.7.1
Component: documentation | Keywords: tutorial
coercion
Work_issues: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: John Palmieri, Leif Leonhardy | Author: Simon King
Merged: | Dependencies:
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Changes (by jhpalmieri):
* status: needs_review => positive_review
* reviewer: => John Palmieri, Leif Leonhardy
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.
>
> Apply [attachment:trac_8821-tutorial-coercion.patch]
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] and
[attachment:trac_8821-ref.patch].
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Comment:
Here's a referee's patch. Positive review.
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8821#comment:21>
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