On Aug 22, 11:28 am, v...@ukr.net wrote: > Hello! > > On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 07:43:28 -0700 (PDT) > > Chris Seberino <cseber...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Aug 22, 8:06 am, Simon King <simon.k...@uni-jena.de> wrote: > > > But apparently other people find it practical to be able to > > > write 2x instead of 2*x. > > > The preference comes from years of using Mathematica. Also, I think a > > space looks cleaner and it is easier to type (no shift needed! :). > > > Chris > > It seems to me that interpreting the "f (x)" as "f*x" could easily > confuse the people who are new to Python and Sage. They will read (or > maybe have already read) some book on Python and the will try to apply > their new knowledge in Sage, but instead will find some strange > inexplicable (at first glance) behaviour. > Wouldn't it be better to stick to Zen of Python rule #2 in this case? > > "Explicit is better than implicit." >
I think in this case the point is not that this would be a default, but an option that people who know about Python can use for certain things they find easier this way. I think the Mathematica consideration is an important one as well - we have a few similar un- Pythonic syntax things in the preparser because the syntax is that way in Matlab. -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
