On Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at 11:52:43 AM UTC+3, Francesco Bonazzi wrote:
>
>
> Concerning functions, a similar problem could arise:
>
> In [15]: f(x).diff(f(x))
> Out[15]: 1
>
> In [17]: f(x).diff(f(y))
> Out[17]: 0
>
>
> I think that output 17 should be a Dirac delta function: DiracDelta(x - 
> y). What do you think?
>

It seems to me that Dirac delta is not appropriate here since it is a 
'generalized function' of a real
variable only in SymPy. Probably some new class of objects, formally 
integrable over a complex
 domain, would be needed to implement this idea.

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