Hi all, I am working on revising the class structure for generic curves to make it easier to implement functionality for the GSoC 2016 project on algebraic curves. The main curve classes right now are ProjectiveSpaceCurve_generic, ProjectiveCurve_generic, AffineSpaceCurve_generic, and AffineCurve_generic, with ProjectiveCurve_generic and AffineCurve_generic representing plane curves. The implementations of these classes reside in /schemes/plane_curves.
Currently, the plane curve classes do not inherit from the space curve classes and there isn't any functionality specific to the space curve classes. The goal of ticket #20697 <http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/20697> is to make the plane curve classes inherit the space curve classes so that the space curve classes act as the generic classes for projective/affine curves. However, doing this makes the class names a bit inaccurate, since for example the ProjectiveCurve_generic class really represents plane curves and ProjectiveSpaceCurve_generic is the more general class. It seems that it would be a lot clearer to have a different naming scheme, such as having ProjectiveCurve_generic be called ProjectiveCurve_plane, and having ProjectiveSpaceCurve_generic be called ProjectiveCurve_generic (similarly for the affine curve classes). Is there a policy for changing class names in Sage? Also, since there eventually will be more functionality implemented for generic curves and not just plane curves, would it be possible to rename the plane_curves folder to something more general such as "curves" or "curves_generic"? Thank you, Grayson -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
