On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/2658, a situation is > brought up where the current behavior of matrix() is sort of awkward. > The issue is that if matrix(object) is called, the first thing that is > tried is object._matrix_(ZZ) and if that fails, then object._matrix_() > is tried. Is there a good reason for defaulting to passing ZZ in as a > ring instead of just asking for the output of _matrix_()?
No, I don't think there is. I'm pretty sure I wrote that code, and I may have done that only for some sort of backwards compatibility at the time, which may not be an issue now. -- 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
