Hi Andrew!
> ... about partition being or not a subclass of partition tuple
The situation is pretty similar to skew partitions: a partition can be
interpreted as a degenerate case of skew-partition as well as a
degenerate case of tuple of partitions. The question is whether we
want the trivial bijection between partitions and 1-uples of
partitions to be implicit or explicit.
I would not want the concrete class Partition to be a subclass of
PartitionTuple because the data structure for a partition is not the
same as for a tuple of partitions (unless we accept a level of
indirection for partitions which seems a waste to me). More
importantly, I don't expect the same result for p[0] when p is a
partition or a tuple of partitions.
On the other hand it could possibly make sense to have a common
abstract super class for Partition and PartitionTuple. If I was to
decide myself, I would listen to the code and see what, if anything,
goes in this potential abstract class.
Cheers,
Nicolas
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