Isn't that to make the interface between univariate and multivariate polynomials compatible? Changing the default may break code that can currently work with univariate and multivariate polynomial rings interchangeably.
On Wednesday, 19 October 2022 at 09:34:59 UTC-7 john.c...@gmail.com wrote: > Does anyone ever use pol.coefficients() and not > pol.coefficients(sparse=False)? I mean, why is the default option > sparse=True? There must be very few occasions for the default,and I > get tired of typing sparse=False.... I do know that pol.list() is the > same as pol.coefficients(sparse=False). > > I would be happy to propose changing the default, with an appropriate > depreciation warning for the usual period. > > John > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/ea92bd8e-0ac2-497f-b9e9-f4abaf5ebca8n%40googlegroups.com.