On Nov 5, 10:10 pm, Nick Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I find this bizarre. I am absolutely certain that I want to view $f$ > as a polynomial in one variable and evaluate it at 10.
That's nice. I wouldn't want to stand in your way. What is worrisome here is that you are all too ready to rule out alternatives, which, as pointed out elsewhere in this thread, are not nearly as bizarre as you say. It's rather unmathematical, frankly, to insist that you know the one true interpretation of an ambiguous expression. > I can think of lots of alternate ideas (evaluate everything to > bottom!) but I believe none of them are common. All of the alternatives I suggested are pedestrian. I'm too ignorant to suggest anything exotic. The larger issue is that callable symbolic expressions are a convenience hack; since they are starting fresh, Sage developers can and should steer away from them. I say this after encountering various convenience hacks in Maxima, which, lo, these many decades on, are very hard to banish. FWIW Robert Dodier --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
