On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 04:05:13 -0800, David Harvey
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Nov 3, 2006, at 12:08 AM, William Stein wrote:
>
>> Actually, I'm going to do this:
>>
>> SageObject
>> |
>> |
>> \|/
>> Parent
>> |
>> |
>> \|/
>> ParentWithGens
>>
>> Since the "Object" in ParentObject is redundant, and this is more
>> consistent
>> with "Element" instead of "ElementObject". Also, Gens instead of
>> Generators,
>> since it is pretty clear what is meant.
>
> My only objection to this (a minor one) is that "Parent" is a
> function name in MAGMA and you always talk about not being confusing
> to people from MAGMA-land.
>
> It definitely is my preferred name.
It's only a function name in SAGE, but lower case:
sage: parent(2/3)
Rational Field
But even if it is the class name it really will be
sage.structure.parent.Parent
hence the extra namespacing makes things OK.
William
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