Thanks for your efforts on this cleaning! We had these around for so long (and no good reason).
Best Vincent On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 at 00:32, Matthias Koeppe <matthiaskoe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at 10:29:12 AM UTC-7 Starx wrote: > > This discussion stems from: > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/979bdce4e002cd05/e8061b2ff21a4cdf?lnk=gst&q=is_AlgebraElement#e8061b2ff21a4cdf > [...] > > The is_functions (is_Integer, is_AlgebraElement, ect) are depreciated > and have been for 4 years now. I think it's time some of them got > deleted, but I'm not sure all of them should go. > > There are 260 functions defined in Sage of the form def is_Name(x) > [...] 110 of them simply return isinstance(x, Name) [...] > > As for the other 150, some of them do the following: > > def is_Name(x) > return isinstance(x, Name_something) > > I didn't check but I suspect that there is a factory called Name which > is why the _whatever is there. [...] > > Finally there are some is_functions that return something slightly > more complicated then a single isinstance, for example > > def is_PrimeFiniteField(x): > some imports > return isinstance(x, FiniteField_prime_modn) or \ > (isinstance(x, FiniteField_generic) and x.degree() == 1) > > [...] It seems to me that after 4 years they should either go or > they shouldn't be depreciated. > > > Another twelve years later, this is almost complete. > https://github.com/sagemath/sage/wiki/Sage-10.4-Release-Tour#deprecations > > > > > > -- > 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/7905ca79-3c8c-4e79-9df0-3cc0c7e9858fn%40googlegroups.com. -- 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/CAGEwAAkO%2BhK%3Du6aHLdzHd3mJkzrPvhwGE810MfXLu0QKY%2Bg_Dg%40mail.gmail.com.
