Re: [sage-devel] Re: using lower case to name functionality/constructor after a person?

2015-08-04 Thread Jori Mäntysalo
On Sat, 1 Aug 2015, Simon King wrote: Some people may know that in German we generally spell nouns upper-case. And the language used in Finland uses more lower cases than english. (Example: Name of the language is 'suomi' - 'Suomi' means the state of Finland.) Nonetheless, I am in favour

[sage-devel] Re: using lower case to name functionality/constructor after a person?

2015-08-01 Thread Simon King
Hi! On 2015-07-31, Andrey Novoseltsev novos...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, 31 July 2015 02:59:26 UTC-6, Dima Pasechnik wrote: In various places one sees things like Graph.tutte_polynomial, Graph.lovasz_theta; whenever I see this (leave alone writing code like this) I feel this is a typo,

Re: [sage-devel] Re: using lower case to name functionality/constructor after a person?

2015-08-01 Thread Nathann Cohen
Some people may know that in German we generally spell nouns upper-case. Nonetheless, I am in favour of spelling the names in function names lower-case, because of a comment of some of my maths professors. He said that it is a great honour for a mathematician if his/her name is finally used

Re: [sage-devel] Re: using lower case to name functionality/constructor after a person?

2015-07-31 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Nathann Cohen nathann.co...@gmail.com wrote: I do not have a strong opinion about whether lower case is better or not. But I strongly support having a convention and mention it in the developer manual. I opened #18974. I would say that we already have

[sage-devel] Re: using lower case to name functionality/constructor after a person?

2015-07-31 Thread John H Palmieri
On Friday, July 31, 2015 at 2:26:59 AM UTC-7, Dima Pasechnik wrote: On Friday, 31 July 2015 10:22:50 UTC+1, Nathann Cohen wrote: I prefer lower case (you don't want to miss a method in tab-completion because of case). I swear I spent 15 minutes last night looking for graphs.Chang* !

Re: [sage-devel] Re: using lower case to name functionality/constructor after a person?

2015-07-31 Thread Vincent Delecroix
I do not have a strong opinion about whether lower case is better or not. But I strongly support having a convention and mention it in the developer manual. I opened #18974. Best, Vincent On 31/07/15 16:44, John H Palmieri wrote: On Friday, July 31, 2015 at 2:26:59 AM UTC-7, Dima Pasechnik

Re: [sage-devel] Re: using lower case to name functionality/constructor after a person?

2015-07-31 Thread Nathann Cohen
I've created http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/18975 for default case-insensitive searching. +1 This new default can only help. Nathann -- 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

[sage-devel] Re: using lower case to name functionality/constructor after a person?

2015-07-31 Thread John H Palmieri
On Friday, July 31, 2015 at 7:44:50 AM UTC-7, John H Palmieri wrote: On Friday, July 31, 2015 at 2:26:59 AM UTC-7, Dima Pasechnik wrote: On Friday, 31 July 2015 10:22:50 UTC+1, Nathann Cohen wrote: I prefer lower case (you don't want to miss a method in tab-completion because of case).

Re: [sage-devel] Re: using lower case to name functionality/constructor after a person?

2015-07-31 Thread Nathann Cohen
I do not have a strong opinion about whether lower case is better or not. But I strongly support having a convention and mention it in the developer manual. I opened #18974. I would say that we already have conventions about upper and lower cases when it comes to functions (lower) and class

[sage-devel] Re: using lower case to name functionality/constructor after a person?

2015-07-31 Thread Andrey Novoseltsev
On Friday, 31 July 2015 02:59:26 UTC-6, Dima Pasechnik wrote: In various places one sees things like Graph.tutte_polynomial, Graph.lovasz_theta; whenever I see this (leave alone writing code like this) I feel this is a typo, and it must become Graph.Tutte_polynomial, etc. Am I alone here,

[sage-devel] Re: using lower case to name functionality/constructor after a person?

2015-07-31 Thread Nathann Cohen
I prefer lower case (you don't want to miss a method in tab-completion because of case). If it has to be upper case, then the best protection against missing functions is to update it everywhere in Sage, so that users expect it. Nathann On Friday, July 31, 2015 at 10:59:26 AM UTC+2, Dima

[sage-devel] Re: using lower case to name functionality/constructor after a person?

2015-07-31 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Friday, 31 July 2015 10:22:50 UTC+1, Nathann Cohen wrote: I prefer lower case (you don't want to miss a method in tab-completion because of case). I swear I spent 15 minutes last night looking for graphs.Chang* ! Searched trac, searched the source, to no avail... (it's in fact