Simon King wrote: > I didn't closely follow the discussion here. Have there been > suggestions how Sage should in future distinguish the two meanings of > comparison (maths vs programming)?
Not in this thread. However, if I understood right, several people who worked on getting rid of cmp() came to the conclusion that having a total order on all objects like cmp() used to (sort of!) promise wasn't that useful. Yet, it would be nice to standardize a few additional comparison functions with well-specified semantics. (That's not what I'm trying to do at the moment, however.) > It would obviously be rather awkward to have to do "A.is_equal(B)" for > a mathematical equality test. It would nevertheless be the best option, IMO, if we were starting from scratch. But that's not the case. -- Marc -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
