On 7/29/10 12:15 PM, D.C. Ernst wrote:
Thanks for all the discussion! (I never thought such a small thing
would generate so much discussion.)
Typically, the discussion is inversely proportional to the scope of the
change and the knowledge required to understand the change. See
http://bik
On Jul 29, 4:31 pm, Jason B Hill wrote:
> > > > [X] minus/plus
>
> > > > [X] '-'/'+'
>
> > > > [ ] below/above
>
> > > > [X] left/right
>
> > > > [ ] from_left/from_right
>
> > > My votes are the same as Rob's.
>
> > Also my votes are the same as Rob's :)
>
> Ditto.
>
> Jason
It seems that the v
>
> > > [X] minus/plus
> >
> > > [X] '-'/'+'
> >
> > > [ ] below/above
> >
> > > [X] left/right
> >
> > > [ ] from_left/from_right
> >
> > My votes are the same as Rob's.
>
> Also my votes are the same as Rob's :)
>
Ditto.
Jason
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On 29 čnc, 18:39, Jason Grout wrote:
> On 7/29/10 9:22 AM, Rob Beezer wrote:
>
> > I'm going to undiplomatically poison the well as I'll be offline for
> > the next few days. I like minus/plus and '-'/'+' as a package, like
> > left/right, and would not miss below/above. With good documentatio
>
> Burcin, earlier you said that there wouldn't be any tab completion for
> "from_left" and "from_right." Why is that? Does this have to do with
> my patch or how Sage handles tab completion? Is the default syntax
> for a given command the only one that shows up for tab completion?
>
I think
> > [X] minus/plus
>
> > [X] '-'/'+'
>
> > [ ] below/above
>
> > [X] left/right
>
> > [ ] from_left/from_right
>
> My votes are the same as Rob's.
Ditto.
Burcin, earlier you said that there wouldn't be any tab completion for
"from_left" and "from_right." Why is that? Does this have to do with
m
On 7/29/10 9:22 AM, Rob Beezer wrote:
I'm going to undiplomatically poison the well as I'll be offline for
the next few days. I like minus/plus and '-'/'+' as a package, like
left/right, and would not miss below/above. With good documentation,
I'm less concerned about clutter.
[X] minus/plus
I'm going to undiplomatically poison the well as I'll be offline for
the next few days. I like minus/plus and '-'/'+' as a package, like
left/right, and would not miss below/above. With good documentation,
I'm less concerned about clutter.
[X] minus/plus
[X] '-'/'+'
[ ] below/above
[X] left/r
A rough summary so far. Correct me if you think I have not read
comments correctly. Status quo is below/above and minus/plus and a
patch to add from_left/from_right.
* left/right is preferable to from_left/from_right
* a suggestion to deprecate below/above, with no objections,
and some
I suppose python takes care of this, or else the minus sign would cause some
issues.
For future reference to those who write LaTeX, you can use various hyphens
depending on whether or not you want line-breaking. (I.e., so
"line-breaking" can or cannot be split between lines at the hyphen.) I've
te
> +1 on the '+' and '-'. If we had that syntax, that's what I'd teach my
> > students to use since they'd already be using it in the classroom.
>
I'm +1 here too. I'm just paranoid and wondering if non-English/American
keyboard layouts will provide one of the 9+ unicode hyphen characters that
isn
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Jason Grout
wrote:
> On 7/27/10 12:23 PM, D.C. Ernst wrote:
>
>> I'm not particularly in love with "from_*" and I am certainly
>> agreeable to changing it (as suggested earlier or otherwise). Can we
>> use the symbols "+" and "-"? This most closed mimics the sta
On 7/27/10 12:23 PM, D.C. Ernst wrote:
I'm not particularly in love with "from_*" and I am certainly
agreeable to changing it (as suggested earlier or otherwise). Can we
use the symbols "+" and "-"? This most closed mimics the standard
notation and is concise. Thoughts?
+1 on the '+' and
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:18 AM, ma...@mendelu.cz wrote:
>
> On 28 čnc, 09:39, Johannes wrote:
>> > 2. I wanted to avoid confusion about whether "left" meant "moving
>> > leftward" as opposed to "from the left."
>>
>> +1 here seems to be more presice than just left or right.
>> greatz Johannes
On 28 čnc, 09:39, Johannes wrote:
> > 2. I wanted to avoid confusion about whether "left" meant "moving
> > leftward" as opposed to "from the left."
>
> +1 here seems to be more presice than just left or right.
> greatz Johannes
I wonder if the preferred way how to read the limit in some langua
Hi Dana,
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:23:28 -0700 (PDT)
"D.C. Ernst" wrote:
> > > I suggest we add "left" and "right" (instead of "from_left" and
> > > "from_right"). In addition, deprecate "above" and "below".
> >
> > +1 from me. I think that would be a big improvement.
>
> I'm assuming that you wa
> 2. I wanted to avoid confusion about whether "left" meant "moving
> leftward" as opposed to "from the left."
>
+1 here seems to be more presice than just left or right.
greatz Johannes
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> > I suggest we add "left" and "right" (instead of "from_left" and
> > "from_right"). In addition, deprecate "above" and "below".
>
> +1 from me. I think that would be a big improvement.
I'm assuming that you want to replace "from_left" (respectively,
"from_right") with "left" (respectively, "ri
Hi Burcin,
> Here is the help page for the MMA command Limit:
>
> http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/Limit.html
>
> They seem to only allow -1 and 1 for the Direction argument.
Yes, I looked at that later. Notice that
http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/tutorial/FindingLimits.htm
Hi Rob,
On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:00:12 -0700 (PDT)
Rob Beezer wrote:
> Hi Burcin,
>
> As Dana Ernst has now mentioned on the ticket, this an outgrowth of
> the professional development workshop that Jason Grout, Karl-Dieter
> Crisman and myself have been running this summer on Sage through the
>
Hi Burcin,
As Dana Ernst has now mentioned on the ticket, this an outgrowth of
the professional development workshop that Jason Grout, Karl-Dieter
Crisman and myself have been running this summer on Sage through the
Mathematical Association of America. Dana is one of our top
students. ;-) But s
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