Dear Javier,
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 02:01:07PM -0800, javier wrote:
> The implementation of the conjugacy classes is now ticket #7886:
> http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/7886
I went through your patch, and am definitely +1 on the overall design
and user interface! Here are some sugge
This is the way objects from the pari library are converted to Sage.
pari has an (imperfect) system of attributing types to objects, and
the conversion code branches on the value of its pari type, calling
suitable conversion code in each case.
So this seems like a sensible way to go for GAP conver
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 6:04 AM, javier wrote:
> This is now Ticket #7890:
> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7890
>
> Thanks for volunteering to work on this, Dmitri! It would be awesome
> to be able to access all that gap functions from sage.
> Skimming a bit at the conversion code, it
On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 21:35:31 -0800 (PST), Dima Pasechnik
wrote:
>
> from what I gather, it asks first of all for a consistent way to
> handle GAP's field elements. A field can be finite, as here in this
> thread, or, say, cyclotomic, as it would happen, e.g., when dealing
> with character tables
