On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Aaron Meurer <asmeu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. > > There was a discussion over at > http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=1721 to rename the > Real class to Float, because the name fits the class better. The > reasoning is that Real represents floating point numbers, not any real > number like sin(1) or 2*pi, and it is confusing to have the subtle > difference between Real and real in the docs. See the discussion over > at that issue page for more info. > > How do people feel about this? If it were to happen, it would happen > in the next release, which also breaks some other things in terms of > backwards compatibly.
It seems that most code uses some variation of Real already: Sage: uses RealField and RealLiteral: sage: a = 1.345 sage: type(a) <type 'sage.rings.real_mpfr.RealLiteral'> Mathematica uses "Real": http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/Real.html And given that it would break compatibility, it seems to me that it's not worthy to make the change. 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.
