AA (but make sure docs make sense after the change) On Thursday, October 27, 2016 at 4:21:02 PM UTC, Travis Scrimshaw wrote: > > I am for BB because: > > 1 - the definition (as even given in the docstring) still makes full sense > if the matrices are not the same size or if they are not square. There does > not exist such a matrix P. >
this is an argument for changing the docs, yes. > 2 - It puts an unnecessary burden on the average user. They have to deal > with errors on a true/false question. You then also have to explain why > there is the error message to your linear algebra students, provided you > were very careful with your definition of similar matrices. > Just as they have to deal with errors from multiplying matrices of different sizes. > 3 - It is a backwards incompatible change that (IMO) is not a bug and we > cannot deprecate. > > well, a wrong decision was made at some point. Do you mean to say one has to keep suffering from it forever? :-) Cheers, Dima Best, > Travis > > -- 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.
