> 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

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