On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Daniel Ribeiro <dan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just found out: 'div' became "__floordiv__" which is invoked also > as // > > (from http://docs.python.org/library/operator.html) > > Which kinda brings the question: why doesn't "|", also known as > "__or__" is not implemented by polynomials, as a synomim for divides? > > Reads equally well: > Given: > P.<x> = GF(7)[] > > > (x^2 + 2*x + 2).divides(x^9 + 5*x) > (x^2 + 2*x + 2) | (x^9 + 5*x) > > Just a suggestion.
One reason is that if one did the above, then it would be natural to do the same for other types, e.g., integers. It would then be confusing if when I do sage: 5 | 3 7 I instead got: sage: 5 | 3 False This would be especially confusing, because no matter what we will have sage: int(5) | int(3) 7 since one can't overload arithmetic operators for builtin types. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
