I wonder whether it would be possible to give a better error message when a user leaves out the multiplication operator in something like x(x+1). Perhaps somthing like: "Warning: you may have forgotten a multiplication operator."
Currently one gets the error message: "DeprecationWarning: Substitution using function-call syntax and unnamed arguments is deprecated and will be removed from a future release of Sage; you can use named arguments instead, like EXPR(x=...,y=...)". This error message is meaningful only to people who know the history of sage and know that there used to be a confusing shorthand notation that allowed something like x=a^2 to be interpreted as x(a)=a^2. I am glad that was deprecated, but I think that the deprecation warning should be preceeded by the warning about the possibility of a missing *. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
