Burcin, thanks for putting this into the tracker. I am not yet quite sure what goes onto the discussion forum and what goes into the tracker.
I saw your comment that the shortcut notation has been deprecated for over a year already. Do you know when it is planned to actually remove it? Is there already a ticket for that in the tracker? Gustav On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Burcin Erocal <bur...@erocal.org> wrote: > 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 > -- 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
