Hi Chris, I am sorry for my late reply, I was busy.
> This is very helpful indeed. By using the mechanism Maple adopts of > using an initial capital letter for inert/noun forms vs active/verb > forms there are difficulties. Look at the mess Maplesoft got into > with the matrix and Matrix packages. add and Add referred to the > packages not being inert, although diff/Diff, sin/Sin etc referred to > noun forms. (!) yes I think Maple is more messy than Mathematica, but I don't really use either of them. > What about the inert/noun form of "+"? What do you mean by an inert from? To be able to represent things in the form: e = 1+3 not being automatically transformed to e=4 ? > What about an inert form of a user defined function f(x), F(x)? What do you mean exactly here? > An inbuilt consistent mechanism would appear to me to finesse these > problems (and others). Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
