On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:37 AM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Feb 21, 2:00 am, Eviatar <eviatarb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I've noticed this too. I wonder if they purposely implemented Sage >> syntax or if it's just a very comprehensive parser. > > I think the goal is to understand any natural syntax for many > questions, and certainly this syntax is relatively unambiguous, and > pretty much the Maxima (i.e. old and well-known) syntax in the first > case. It tries to also understand much more 'natural' things like > "the integral of ... with respect to x" etc. so I don't see any need > to impute any extra thought on this.
Yes, I'd say this is *much* more natural than, e.g., using square brackets for function calls and capitalizing log/trig functions. - Robert -- 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
