> As for global defaults, it's nice for both examples and debugging for > there to be as little global state as possible, and someone who wants > RDF for reals probably wants CDF for complexes. The consistency > argument is a good one, but changing matrix(...) would be much more > invasive, and both defaults have their pros and cons, so the simpler > syntax could be used for the simpler (i.e. more basic user that > doesn't want to care about baserings but just wants to slice and dice > some matrices) default.
I agree that having very little global state is good, but right now I don't think that Sage is succeeding very well in our mission to provide a viable alternative to Matlab. I would like to see more users to Sage who care about floating point linear algebra, and I think it's worth having some global state if we can attract such people by making it easier to create matrices with floats. David -- 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
