On Oct 28, 2007, at 03:39 , David Joyner wrote:
>
> Mike:
> Since your Permutations does things correctly, I wonder if
> permutations should be (a) renamed permutations_gap
> or something, or (b) a "WARNING: this GAP wrapper is
> deprecated in favor of Permutations" (or something like that)
> should be printed on it's use? At the very least, maybe (c) the
> docstring
> for permutations should point to Permutations?
> For example, I remembered that you had reworked the
> combinatorial functions and thought permutations was
> yours at first.
Please: no printed "deprecated" warnings. Anything would be better
than that.
OK, not anything, but printed warnings are not much help, and can be
really annoying. How many people have seen this on Unix/Linux systems
warning: this program uses gets(), which is unsafe.
and have no clue what they should do about it (or what 'unsafe'
means? Is my bank account about to be emptied?)?
Justin
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