On Apr 1, 2008, at 4:53 AM, mabshoff wrote:
> On Apr 1, 10:41 am, shreevatsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Someone else was trying to do something, and I tried something and >> got >> a crash; mabshoff asked me to post a backtrace. (So if it is very >> long, don't blame me ;-)) >> >> This is probably invalid mathematics that should raise an exception, >> but it causes a crash instead on my OS X 10.4. The other person also >> had this problem on Linux. mabshoff speculated it is a 32-bit/64-bit >> issue, since it raises an exception for him. >> >> Code: >> K.<x>=QQ['X']; p=EuclideanDomainElement(K); >> q=EuclideanDomainElement(K); (x^3+p*x+q).quo_rem(3*x^2+p) Wait a second.... if I type sage: K.<x> = QQ['X'] sage: p = EuclideanDomainElement(K) what is this supposed to even mean? What is p supposed to be here? I get sage: p Generic element of a structure I think the __init__ call gets redirected to Element.__init__, which just sets the parent. In my opinion, this constructor call should be disallowed somehow. Unless there's something about the new coercion model that I don't know. david --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
