On Thursday 17 May 2007 12:34, William Stein wrote:
> On 5/17/07, Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I am not so sure. Moving it up to Element means that it shows up in
> > > tab-completion (polluting the method list) even though it is not
> > > supported for most Elements.
> > >
> > > Martin
> >
> > You could say it is supported on all elements. It just returns self if
> > there is no substitution to
> > be done:
> > sage: 5.subs(y=10)
> > 5
> >
> > This is precisely what would happen in 5 came from maxima
> > (maxima('5')).
>
> I agree. Also, if you think about it there are a huge number of
> different elements that do support some sort of notion of substitution.
> I think Michel's suggestion is pretty good.
Okay then, I will incorporate this patch into my patchset then which I will
send around today where MPolynomials over QQ and GF(p) use the libSINGULAR as
default implementation and "make test" passes!
Martin
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