On May 27, 11:51 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:37 AM, davidp <dav...@reed.edu> wrote:
>
> > Thanks. I have switched to maximal_faces().
>
> > I had a simplicial complex, s, and typed "s." + TAB to see the
> > completions. I saw s.facets, before seeing s.maximal_faces, then was
> > confused by getting an error from s.facets(). It seems to be a
> > convention with Sage to keep attributes hidden, so I thought you might
> > want to know about this.
>
> Yes, it is. This convention has its pros and cons, and I'm not saying
> it is the best. However, it is used systematically throughout several
> hundred thousand lines of code, so for no other reason than
> consistency, I think we should stick with it.
Okay: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6141
John
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