Some of the history of parents and generators is discussed here https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sage-devel/3c0vPGOWWMI/ys5hYhhdp3sJ
On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 12:04:49 PM UTC-4, Travis Scrimshaw wrote: > > We do want to try and get away from the sometimes ambiguous gens() to > explicit_generators() > Unless you also envision an implicit_generators() that is a bad name. Generators are almost always involve choices, deal with it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.