On Mar 29, 4:51 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > (2) If I write > > sage: d = differentiate > > would your preparser thing be invoked when I type > > sage: d(y^3, y) > > If yes, then where do you draw the line? If no, then won't this lead > to lots of additional confusion?
OK, that makes sense. Amplifying on (2), you might want to pass derivative as an argument to another method and not have to somehow track that it gets special treatment in order to behave consistently. Thanks for the explanation. Rob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
