On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 11:24 PM, Jeroen Demeyer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2015-03-19 06:54, William Stein wrote: >> >> - Ten years of backwards compatibility. > > > Just a small remark: *printing* elements is part of the user interface and > not really something for which backwards compatibility matters.
Technically you're right. However, I don't necessarily agree with that definition of "backwards compatibility". For example, we've seen frequently in creating Sage that output of one program can be input to another program. Reversing the order of printing algebraic numbers could break code other people wrote that used that output (nobody should be proud of such brittle code, of course). -- William > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-nt" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-nt. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-nt" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-nt. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
