On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Golam Mortuza
Hossain<gmhoss...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am preparing patches that will resolve
>
> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6465
>
> and will also move symbolic integration as a sub-class
> of SFunction into new symbolics.
>
>
> Currently, Sage allows omitting variable of integration for convenience.
> However, this convenience comes at a hefty price by making Sage
> syntax highly inconsistent. On top of this, it mask genuine typing error
> as a valid input.
>
> For example: "integrate(f(x), x, a, )" is treated as "integrate(f(x), x, x, 
> a)"
> where user may have wanted to type "integrate(f(x), x, a, b)" but
> missed the "b".
>
> Given we are moving to a new settings, I am proposing that we make
> integration syntax bit stricter and consistent now. In particular, we allow 
> only
> following inputs as valid
>
> (1) integrate( f(x), x)
> (2) integrate( f(x), (x,a,b) )
> (3) integrate( f(x), x, a, b)
>

I strongly agree.

William

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