Definition talk:Pointwise Operation/Real-Valued Functions

Maybe Category:Pointwise Operations is justified (with corresponding Definitions category). --Lord_Farin 07:36, 6 April 2012 (EDT)

I'm trying to add a link to what "operand" means but I can't figure out how to link to a subpage of a subpage of a page, Definition:Operation. How do you do that? --GFauxPas 08:18, 6 April 2012 (EDT)


 * You can use a sharp sign (#) (more commonly known as 'hash sign', but I'm a bit recalcitrant). That would make Definition:Operation. But maybe Definition:Operand could be redirected there. --Lord_Farin 08:22, 6 April 2012 (EDT)


 * A $\sharp$ sign is technically a different beast from a $\#$ sign. Horizontals, not verticals, are oblique. --prime mover 10:09, 6 April 2012 (EDT)


 * I should have been more careful in my recalcitrance and have written octothorpe instead. --Lord_Farin 10:26, 6 April 2012 (EDT)


 * Okay, so that's already in place. --Lord_Farin 08:22, 6 April 2012 (EDT)


 * Oh whoops, thought subpage of a subpage would be different than just subpage. --GFauxPas 08:35, 6 April 2012 (EDT)


 * While I think about it, I am not keen on using links with # in them. I would rather that a redirect were used to point to that page, and then that redirect used exclusively. (The reason is, if we then decided to refactor, and take that section out and put it into its own page, the amount of rework needed on pages which include that # sign in the link will be minimal.) You-all may have seen me changing such links with # in them so as to use those redirects. Like a fool, I sort of expected this to be picked up on and copied. Never mind, I live and learn. --prime mover 10:09, 6 April 2012 (EDT)
 * Oh I did pick up on it, but I usually don't take the effort to see if there's a redirect to the page I want to link to. I also just thought it was just "prime mover's thing" and that there wasn't a reason for it. --GFauxPas 10:32, 6 April 2012 (EDT)

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The way I suggested this working when this was first discussed was for this to be a subpage of Definition:Operation Induced on Set of Mappings. The reason for this was so that it could be easily transcluded, in that there is an immediate link back to the parent page so as to emphasise the link between them.

However, I wonder about the need for transclusion, given that there is a link from one to the other which works perfectly well - so suggest (as that is what is being used already) that this page is in fact renamed directly to Definition:Pointwise Operation on Real-Valued Functions. Then this page could probably be disposed of. Thoughts? --prime mover 10:09, 6 April 2012 (EDT)


 * In constructing this page, I chose to avoid transclusion of it onto the 'main' page as it is completely self-contained, and an instance rather than a sub-definition. That is, I agree. --Lord_Farin 10:26, 6 April 2012 (EDT)