On 5/24/07, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I don't want to dive into making a UnitaryRing subclass just to > address this issue. We start getting problems because pyrex doesn't > support multiple inheritance; for this reason we've been trying to > keep the class hierarchy as simple as possible. For now it might be > better to just put the _one_ attribute on CommutativeRing.
We definitely should add this. The attribute for the zero element is "zero_element", e.g., sage: ZZ.zero_element() 0 Thus whatever name we use should be consistent with that. E.g., sage: ZZ.one_element() 1 I like that a little better than "unit", since -1 is also a unit element. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
