Hi Gustav, On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 10:36:29 -0800 (PST) Gustav Delius <gustav.del...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 *. This is now #8214 on trac: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8214 Thank you. Burcin -- 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
