On Thursday, November 27, 2014 at 5:29:35 PM UTC+7, Nathann Cohen wrote: > > > 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 >
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