Re: [sage-devel] Re: Re: ceil or ceiling?

2018-06-16 Thread Vincent Delecroix
On 08/06/2018 19:53, John H Palmieri wrote: On Friday, June 8, 2018 at 7:59:39 AM UTC-7, Marc Mezzarobba wrote: Personally, I'd vote for keeping ceil(), and not adding any alias. I agree with this. Another philosophy (at which Sage should do a better job) is to not have too much in the gl

[sage-devel] Re: Re: ceil or ceiling?

2018-06-08 Thread Kwankyu Lee
On Saturday, June 9, 2018 at 2:53:56 AM UTC+9, John H Palmieri wrote: > > > On Friday, June 8, 2018 at 7:59:39 AM UTC-7, Marc Mezzarobba wrote: >> >> >> Personally, I'd vote for keeping ceil(), and not adding any alias. >> > > I agree with this. Another philosophy (at which Sage should do a be

[sage-devel] Re: Re: ceil or ceiling?

2018-06-08 Thread John H Palmieri
On Friday, June 8, 2018 at 7:59:39 AM UTC-7, Marc Mezzarobba wrote: > > > Personally, I'd vote for keeping ceil(), and not adding any alias. > I agree with this. Another philosophy (at which Sage should do a better job) is to not have too much in the global namespace. Because of Python, we ha

[sage-devel] Re: Re: ceil or ceiling?

2018-06-08 Thread Marc Mezzarobba
John Cremona wrote: > I hope it is not being suggested that we have to add tangent() as an > alias to tan(), logoarithm() as an alias to log(), etc etc etc I made the comparison with acos() because ceil() clearly is the usual notation for me (I didn't know of any language or library calling it c