-1 on this; as Sébastien says, we already have overloaded the bitwise operators &, | for this -- which is consistent with Python's operators for set and frozenset - https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#set (Note Python's set and frozenset do not support +.)
On Tuesday, March 29, 2022 at 2:34:14 AM UTC-7 GMS wrote: > > I have noticed the overloading of + for Set union, which I find very > convenient. > > Correspondingly, I would like to propose the overloading of * for Set > intersection. > > It seems to me that it suffices to modify > local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/sage/sets/set.py > by adding in > class Set_add_sub_operators: > the lines > def _mul_(self, X): > """ > Return the intersection of ``self`` and ``X``. > """ > return self.intersection(X) > > I have tested this and it works as expected. > > Should I open a ticket? I shall have to learn how to deal with commits. > > I am aware of the overloading of * in real_set.py, but I think they are > compatible. > > Thanks, > > Guillermo > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/7ed54089-a17d-4723-b68b-5eb77b15ffaen%40googlegroups.com.
