> Of course, proposing the statu quo may be unpopular ;-). Another solution I > can propose is to keep f.coefficients() as it is, make f.coeffs() an alias > of the former, and only keep f.list() for the list of all the coefficients.
If I understand what you said, you want "coefficients" to be left unchanged for compatibility reasons with other classes, and you want an easy way to get the *list* of coefficients too. While I do not see why this dense/sparse=True argument would be a problem (it is only optional, the default behaviour would not change), what about doing that: 1) Remove .coeffs 2) Update the doc of coefficients to hint that the *list* of coefficients can be obtained through list(P), or P.list ? I thought that we tried in Sage to avoid short names/abbreviations anyway, and it would also avoid the problem raised by Francis: a function whose name abbreviates another's should be an alias, nothing else. Nathann -- 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.
