I didn't mean to come off sounding negative about it. I think it's a
reasonable way of doing things. It does complicate the issue a bit.

I think my question is the following:
It would make my life easier if is_commutative was a property. I notice
that it is special cased for performance reasons though. What is the
situation here?


On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Sergiu Ivanov <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 08:29:29AM -0500, Matthew Rocklin wrote:
> >
> > One issue with this is that we often associate the idea of commutativity
> to
> > Symbols instead of operations. In particular I think that physics uses
> > non-commutative symbols in Muls a lot. So some Muls are commutative and
> > some are not.
>
> Wow, that sounds really wrong, but I can see how trying to avoid this
> will break a huge number of things.
>
> Thanks for pointing out this fact.
>
> Sergiu
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