Re: Issue 1376 in sympy: sympy.sum overrides built-in sum with a different call syntax

2009-12-11 Thread sympy
Updates: Summary: sympy.sum overrides built-in sum with a different call syntax Labels: -Milestone-Release0.6.6 Milestone-Release0.7.0 Comment #4 on issue 1376 by ronan.l...@gmail.com: sympy.sum overrides built-in sum with a different call syntax http://code.google.com/p/sympy/is

Re: Issue 1376 in sympy: sympy.sum overrides built-in sum with a different call syntax

2009-12-11 Thread sympy
Issue 1376: sympy.sum overrides built-in sum with a different call syntax http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=1376 This issue is now blocking issue 1727. See http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=1727 -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fie

Re: Issue 1376 in sympy: sympy.sum overrides built-in sum with a different call syntax

2010-04-07 Thread sympy
Updates: Status: Started Owner: mattpap Labels: NeedsReview Comment #5 on issue 1376 by mattpap: sympy.sum overrides built-in sum with a different call syntax http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=1376 As I work with built-in sum() a lot when developing sympy

Re: Issue 1376 in sympy: sympy.sum overrides built-in sum with a different call syntax

2010-04-07 Thread sympy
Comment #6 on issue 1376 by ronan.l...@gmail.com: sympy.sum overrides built-in sum with a different call syntax http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=1376 -1. I don't think it's a good idea to glue together two functions with different semantics and interface. It would be much cle

Re: Issue 1376 in sympy: sympy.sum overrides built-in sum with a different call syntax

2010-06-14 Thread sympy
Updates: Labels: -NeedsReview NeedsBetterPatch Comment #7 on issue 1376 by Vinzent.Steinberg: sympy.sum overrides built-in sum with a different call syntax http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=1376 I agree with Ronan. Also I don't like that we are overwriting sum(), but t

Re: Issue 1376 in sympy: sympy.sum overrides built-in sum with a different call syntax

2011-01-06 Thread sympy
Updates: Cc: Vinzent.Steinberg Ronan.Lamy Comment #8 on issue 1376 by asmeurer: sympy.sum overrides built-in sum with a different call syntax http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=1376 As far as I can tell, this change is still there in polys12. Are you guys still -1, bec

Re: Issue 1376 in sympy: sympy.sum overrides built-in sum with a different call syntax

2011-01-07 Thread sympy
Comment #9 on issue 1376 by Vinzent.Steinberg: sympy.sum overrides built-in sum with a different call syntax http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=1376 I just don't like overwriting the built-in sum. We could call it sympy.sum_, this is ugly but conventional. -- You received thi

Re: Issue 1376 in sympy: sympy.sum overrides built-in sum with a different call syntax

2011-01-07 Thread sympy
Updates: Labels: -Priority-Medium Priority-Critical Comment #10 on issue 1376 by asmeurer: sympy.sum overrides built-in sum with a different call syntax http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=1376 Well, we need to agree on something before the release (or actually before me

Re: Issue 1376 in sympy: sympy.sum overrides built-in sum with a different call syntax

2011-01-07 Thread sympy
Comment #11 on issue 1376 by Vinzent.Steinberg: sympy.sum overrides built-in sum with a different call syntax http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=1376 I don't have a strong opinion about this and I don't like both variants. I slightly prefer sum_(), but in the end it is not that

Re: Issue 1376 in sympy: sympy.sum overrides built-in sum with a different call syntax

2011-01-08 Thread sympy
Updates: Labels: -NeedsBetterPatch NeedsReview asmeurer Comment #12 on issue 1376 by asmeurer: sympy.sum overrides built-in sum with a different call syntax http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=1376 See https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/78. -- You received this message b

Re: Issue 1376 in sympy: sympy.sum overrides built-in sum with a different call syntax

2011-01-08 Thread sympy
Updates: Status: Duplicate Mergedinto: 1727 Comment #13 on issue 1376 by asmeurer: sympy.sum overrides built-in sum with a different call syntax http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=1376 Since we have decided to rename sum(), I am merging this into issue 1727. -- Y

Re: Issue 1376 in sympy: sympy.sum overrides built-in sum with a different call syntax

2011-01-08 Thread sympy
Comment #14 on issue 1376 by fredrik.johansson: sympy.sum overrides built-in sum with a different call syntax http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=1376 Maybe sums() or ssum()? It's short like sum_, without the ugly underscore, and you can read it as "symbolic sum / sum symbolical