ODE: Unfortunate notation

Posted Jan 20, 2021 20:31 UTC (Wed) by leephillips (subscriber, #100450)
In reply to: ODE: Unfortunate notation by tnoo
Parent article: An introduction to SciPy

I see your stylistic point; perhaps using another symbol would make it clearer that f is just a placeholder.

ODE: Unfortunate notation

Posted Jan 21, 2021 15:35 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Yes. The first time I read it I was thinking "how much monkey patching is going on to allow the arithmetic of functions?", but then I read the parameter names and it made sense.

ODE: Unfortunate notation

Posted Jan 23, 2021 16:56 UTC (Sat) by mkbosmans (subscriber, #65556) [Link]

Or simply call the function that defines the derivative of f: df(t, f).