> So I am suggesting that a clean syntax is possible if > the base ring is associated with the target symbol, not > with the input tokens.
Apprently in Axiom you can statically type variable names, whereas in Python a variable is dynamically typed: you can't specify that a should hold an Integer for example. sage: a = 4; type(a) <type 'sage.rings.integer.Integer'> sage: a = 4/3; type(a) <type 'sage.rings.rational.Rational'> 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