> 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

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