On Apr 10, 2009, at 10:08 AM, William Stein wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:51 AM, David Roe <r...@math.harvard.edu> > wrote: >> >> >> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:40 AM, John Cremona >> <john.crem...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> >> :-) There's a patch in trac (#4637) adding documentation to p- >> adics, and >> I'm going to write a bunch of doctests tomorrow. >> >> And yes, I originally wrote Extended Integers and Extended >> Rationals when I >> was writing lazy p-adics. Since lazy p-adics aren't currently in >> good >> enough shape to be turned on, I don't think any part of the sage >> library >> uses Extended Integers or Extended Rationals. Upon further >> reflection, I'm >> not sure I even need them for lazy p-adics. I don't know if it's >> a good >> idea to just get rid of extended integers and rationals or not. > > +1 to getting rid of them. I say we just delete both files. Nobody > knows what they are really, and they aren't needed, and they are > probably partly broken given the bad coverage (at least of integer). > I made this #5735: > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5735
I'll second this. If we need them someday, then we'll accept them with full coverage. Actually, I think this could probably be better done lazily and generically rather than re-defining every method that exists in the integers/rationals. - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
