Sorry, I've just seen William's earlier post in this thread, and I see
that there was no need for my rather combative previous post -- I
apologise for any offence I may have caused.
David
On Oct 4, 2:05 am, William Stein wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 1:30 PM, David Joyner wrote:
>
> > The ab
On Oct 4, 4:54 am, William Stein wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Rob Beezer wrote:
>
> > On Oct 3, 6:05 pm, William Stein wrote:
> >> And this has already been almost completed by David Loeffler based
> >> on work by me. http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6449
>
> > The work
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Rob Beezer wrote:
>
> On Oct 3, 6:05 pm, William Stein wrote:
>> And this has already been almost completed by David Loeffler based
>> on work by me. http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6449
>
> The work at #6449 creates additive abelian groups by extending
On Oct 3, 6:05 pm, William Stein wrote:
> And this has already been almost completed by David Loeffler based
> on work by me. http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6449
The work at #6449 creates additive abelian groups by extending the
class for finitely-generated modules over ZZ. Assuming
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 1:30 PM, David Joyner wrote:
>
> The abelian group class needs to be rewritten. The basic idea
> was to try to use GAP as much as possible and use
> Python/Sage to parse input and output. For various
> technical reasons, that did not work as nicely as hoped.
> The correct s
The abelian group class needs to be rewritten. The basic idea
was to try to use GAP as much as possible and use
Python/Sage to parse input and output. For various
technical reasons, that did not work as nicely as hoped.
The correct solution, may be to rewrite it from scratch completely
separate fr
