On 10-Jan-08, at 11:44 AM, Harald Schilly wrote:
> > On Jan 10, 8:19 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Jan 10, 2008 9:16 AM, Robert Bradshaw >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> These sound like good suggestions, I'll re-implement the richer >>> functionality. >> >> Quick question -- why does this even have to be another function? > > Hi, just my 2 cents, extending the matrix-creation command is far > better, because you just think this way. That may be true, but this function is already so overloaded that understanding the code is very difficult. I think that making matrix (...) accept more inputs will hide errors and hide intention; I vote for block_matrix and friends. As for replicating the matrix to make it fit, that's a terrible idea: hooray for difficult to diagnose bugs and confusing semantics. Nick --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
