On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:12 AM, Fabian Pedregosa <fab...@fseoane.net> wrote: > Maybe the distinction between Symbol and Function in SymPy is rather > artificial. After all, a function is an unknown variable with the same > operations as Symbol, being the only difference with symbol that they > live in different spaces (but specifying where the object lives is more > the job of assumptions). > > Or is there another reason to make Symbol and Function separate objects?
They have different __new__ methods, e.g. Function is the base class for all sympy functions, while Symbol is just a symbol. But I agree it is artificial in a sense. If anyone submits a patch, that merges the two approaches, and it is not a mess, we can do it. Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
