Re: [sage-devel] Fwd: [sage-combinat-devel] permutation group perspectives

2010-05-18 Thread Jason B Hill
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Robert Bradshaw < rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote: > I full heartedly agree with the idea that permutation groups should be able > to act on more than just the set 1..n, using a dictionary to do the mapping > transparently to the user under the hood (and this

Re: [sage-devel] Fwd: [sage-combinat-devel] permutation group perspectives

2010-05-17 Thread Robert Bradshaw
I full heartedly agree with the idea that permutation groups should be able to act on more than just the set 1..n, using a dictionary to do the mapping transparently to the user under the hood (and this is technically totally feasible). I'm not as convinced that we should throw out the noti

[sage-devel] Fwd: [sage-combinat-devel] permutation group perspectives

2010-05-17 Thread Mike Hansen
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jason B Hill Date: Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:05 PM Subject: [sage-combinat-devel] permutation group perspectives To: sage-combinat-de...@googlegroups.com This comes after a discussion I had with several at Sage days 20.5 in Toronto relating to the unde