I have started changing sum() to summation() (I am leaving Sum alone). One thing that I noticed is that there is some Sum2 class that seems to be a duplicate of Sum. Does anyone know what this is?
Aaron Meurer On Jan 8, 2011, at 1:43 PM, Aaron S. Meurer wrote: > Should we also change Sum to Summation? > > Aaron Meurer > > On Jan 8, 2011, at 1:42 PM, Tim Lahey wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Aaron S. Meurer <asmeu...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Well, I think the semantics of Python's sum and SymPy's sum do not overlap, >>> despite what Ronan says, but now that I think about it, I agree with Brian. >>> If Python changes the semantics or behavior of sum(), we would have to >>> change ours accordingly (although, being a builtin, this seems unlikely). >>> >>> So I think we should change the name. Is summate the option everyone >>> likes? I think I slightly prefer summation, even if it does break verb-noun >>> parity, because it is the more common term used for the mathematical object. >>> >> >> I prefer summation to summate. >> >> >> Tim. >> -- >> Tim Lahey >> PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering >> University of Waterloo >> http://about.me/tjlahey > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to sy...@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.
