Take a look at how the class MatAdd is implemented. Note that is isn't
a trivial problem to solve, and there are still ongoing discussions on
the best way to do it (see for instance
https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/18769).

Aaron Meurer

On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 3:30 PM Davide Sandona' <sandona.dav...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> A few days ago I opened an issue requesting information about vector 
> expressions [1]. Thanks to covid lock-down I had enough free-time to develop 
> something. In the issue it was suggested that I could open a pull-request, 
> but before doing that I would like to solve a problem I'm having a hard time 
> comprehending. This is the link to the repo I'm working on [2].
>
> The problem is with the class VecAdd; ideally, I would like it to subclass 
> the class Add, so that it would "simplify" the arguments. However, if I do 
> that, the evaluation of n-derivatives would return instances of the class Add!
> I checked the output of  _eval_derivative_n_times which is of type VecAdd, 
> however it must be intercepted by some other function and finally it returns 
> an instance of the class Add. I absolutely need it to return an instance of 
> VecAdd.
>
> Can someone help me understand what the problem is and suggest corrective 
> actions?
>
> Thanks!
>
> [1] https://github.com/sympy/sympy/issues/18987
> [2] https://github.com/Davide-sd/sympy_vector_expressions
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