> I've been incredibly glad on numerous occasions that across the board > Sage works very well with matrices that have 0 rows or columns, though > this took a lot of extra work initially. The only argument put forth for > removing multivariate polynomials rings with 0 generators is "It will > be a no fun to support". That is not compelling.
libSingular doesn't support it and as soon as more pointers are involved the generic implementation will too have problems (== NULL pointers). Maybe a special implementation for zero generators is in order then? Martin -- name: Martin Albrecht _pgp: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8EF0DC99 _www: http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~malb _jab: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---