On Wednesday, November 26, 2014 8:06:31 PM UTC, john_perry_usm wrote: > > I would propose the following: > > *f.coeffs?* should state something to the effect of, "Returns all the > coefficients of a dense representation of f." > > *f.coefficients?* should state something like, "Returns all the > coefficients of a sparse representation of f; that is, it returns only the > non-zero coefficients, in a list correlated with f.exponents." (Notice the > explicit statement of the correlation, reinforcing sparse representation.) >
It seems to me that as a general principle, a method whose name is an *abbreviation* of the name of another method should actually be the *same* method. Anything else is hugely confusing to a user. Both the functionalities described are, of course, useful, but giving them such similar names has a times certainly confused me. Francis Clarke -- 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.
