[sage-devel] What was the controversy over assumed multiplication ?

2009-03-11 Thread seber...@spawar.navy.mil
It was great going to the Sage Days in San Diego and seeing the very capable Sage crew including W.S. I was curious about something the team said about a controversy regarding something that I believe was called assumed or implicit multiplication. I think the controversy was whether to allow

[sage-devel] Re: What was the controversy over assumed multiplication ?

2009-03-11 Thread seber...@spawar.navy.mil
Carl Mathematica seems to have been successful with this approach. I'm curious what were the reasons for its disapproval. Perhaps it was feared it was error prone? Chris On Mar 11, 11:36 am, Carl Witty carl.wi...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:21 AM, seber...@spawar.navy.mil