That seem reasonable to me. If users expected the number of digits to always equal the length of the string representation, then what about negative integers?
Of course we could restrict the ndigits() function to positive integers only... John On 03/04/2008, Joel B. Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 03 April 2008 15:14, John Cremona wrote: > > We have to regard 0 as a special case, I don't think there's any point > > in pretending otherwise. If all leading zeros were stripped off in > > all cases then the string representing 0 would be the empty string, > > and obviously that would be silly. > > > Certainly, 0 is a special case (and the example of string is crystal clear). > However, the question is which way more users of 'digits' want the results. > Not having a list of uses (and future uses!) of 'digits' on hand at the > moment, it's a bit of a shot in the dark which special casing might be > preferred. I think that the most likely correct answer for general cases is > the empty list (after all, we'd like to not pass on the special case to the > end-user more than we have to.) > > -- > > Joel > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
