On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 4:57 AM, John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2009/5/14 Michael Abshoff <mabsh...@googlemail.com>: >> >> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 4:45 AM, John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Your comment about the sum function suggests to me that something >>> similar might be behind the weird thing I reported yesterday. >> >> Yeah, we ought to suggest to the pari people to rename such generic > > I don't think they would rename "sum" to please us!
I doubt they will do it, but asking can't hurt. There is loads of code out there with potential naming collisions and if you write a library you ought to know better than to make such a rookie mistake. Not that I have a high opinion of the function names in pari anyway ... and they seem to be really breaking backward compatibility in 2.4svn anyway. > I wouldn't want > to rename the C++ class called "rational" in eclib either. But I > might consider a request to wrap all my global names in a namespace -- > presumably that would work here too. Well, some of the C++ code in Sage doesn't even use proper namespaces. But so far nothing unfixable has happened, but there was a short while in Cython 0.10-devel when things got pretty screwed up and Sage served as a test case to deal with headers containing potentially colliding symbols. Cheers, Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
