Re: [sage-devel] Poll: deprecate backslash operator

2023-10-04 Thread Nils Bruin
On Wednesday, 4 October 2023 at 10:41:36 UTC-7 Thierry Dumont wrote: In "Computational Mathematics with SageMath" we have some backslash... Indeed, I found on page 43 the example: sage: 123 + \ : 345 468 which does not work presently. The first mention of "\" as an operator is on page

Re: [sage-devel] Poll: deprecate backslash operator

2023-10-04 Thread John H Palmieri
Right. According to the Sage Developer's Guide, "Deprecated code can only be removed one year after the first stable release in which it appeared," so it will work for at least a year, and then someone would have to take further action to remove it completely. On Wednesday, October 4, 2023 at

Re: [sage-devel] Poll: deprecate backslash operator

2023-10-04 Thread John Cremona
I assume that deprecation means that for a year or so people can still use the backslash but will see a deprecation warning. This could last for quite a long time, so existing code would not immediately break. On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, 18:41 Thierry Dumont, wrote: > In "Computational Mathematics with

Re: [sage-devel] Poll: deprecate backslash operator

2023-10-04 Thread Thierry Dumont
In "Computational Mathematics with SageMath" we have some backslash... So, if we deprecate it, we will have problems with the doctests asociated,... and with the book. I don't like the backslash for solving linear systems, but even Julia has adopted it, probably for Matlab users... t.d.