On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Jason Grout
<jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote:
>
> William Stein wrote:
>> Second, I had to change  point(P, ...) to plot(P, ...) since point now
>> tries to see if there are 3 coordinates (there are since P is a point
>> on elliptic curve) and somehow gets confused.
>> This bug is
>>
>>    http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5122
>
>
> I think P.plot() or plot(P,...) should be the correct syntax here.  This
> hasn't worked for probably about 5 months (see the ticket for comments).
>
> point() pretty specifically says that it is for 2d or 3d points:
>
> "points -- either a single point (as a tuple) or a list of points. "
>
> Since P above is not a tuple, I don't think point(P) should work.
> Instead, P is an object that knows how to plot itself, and so should be
> called as such.

Maybe true, but instead of making this just break there should be a
deprecation warning and the old behavior should continue to work... at
least for 6 months or so.

William

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