On Dec 19, 2012, at 4:16 AM, P Purkayastha wrote: > On 12/19/2012 12:28 AM, Charles Bouillaguet wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> There seems to be an inconsistency between the docstrings and the actual >> behavior of some module-related methods. For instance, I am surprised by the >> behavior of the coordinates() method : >> > > It is consistent with whatever A.ambient_vector_space() is doing. There is > even a doctest: > > sage: M = ZZ^3; > sage: V = M.ambient_vector_space(); V > Vector space of dimension 3 over Rational Field > > Since the "ambient vector space" is the Rational field, A.coordinates returns > the rational numbers. I don't know what is meant by the term "ambient vector > space" in this context.
Fair enough, but the docstring of A.coordinates() says nothing about ambient space. So I think that a) either the docstring must be fixed or b) the function must be fixed. Which one has your preference ? --- Charles Bouillaguet http://www.lifl.fr/~bouillaguet/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. 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. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
