On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 12:58 AM, Travis Scrimshaw <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear all,
>    On #20555, we have set in motion an eventual change of the default
> behavior for the descent in a permutation to be 1-based, instead of 0-based,
> in order to agree with the usual notion of considering a permutation of {1,
> 2, ..., n} and an element of the type A_n Weyl group. This will happen after
> a 1 year deprecation period, but there will remain an optional argument
> "from_zero" that you can set to "True" to force the current behavior.

Hooray!  (I have no opinion one way or the other on this but I know
it's been a contentious issue for a long time, and the proposed
solution seems reasonable to me?)

Perhaps one thing you might consider is a way to set the default
globally--so that for example all permutations can be set zero-based
from a single flag, without having to specify from_zero everywhere.
But I can suggest that in the ticket if that would be a better place.

Best,
Erik

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