On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 02:06 -0800, David Roe wrote: > > 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 >
Axiom associates the target type of the input so you type a:Matrix(Integer) := [[1]] or b:Matrix(Float) := [[1.1]] or for larger values c:Matrix(Integer) := [[1,2,3],[4,5,6]] d:Matrix(Float) := [[1.1,2.1,3.1],[4.1,5.1,6.1]] Tim Daly -- 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
