Hello Jean-Yves, hello Andrew, I guess I should have something to say about this but I don't really understand what is happening. When I wrote the #7983 patch, I was being annoyed by the fact that there was no method on the Tableaux class computing what everyone in combinatorics calls the descents, whereas the descents() method on tableaux was computing something rather unrelated (that, moreover, depends only on the shape if the tableau is semistandard). I suspect the descents() method was some kind of helper function for Jack or H-L related code. Anyway, I decided to rename the old descents() method into a less ambiguous name and to make descents() compute the actual descents. But I've quickly got talked out of this, as this would deprecate some userbase code, so instead I added a standard_descents() method and left descents() untouched (only adding the warning to its doc). I was working on sage-main all the time.
Now, Jean-Yves (who, as far as I understand, has been using sage-combinat) is saying he has been using descents() all the time and since he is talking about standard tableaux, I assume that function has been computing the actual descents rather than whatever it has been computing on sage-main. Does this mean that the descents() function on sage-combinat has been doing something completely different from that on sage-main all the time before my #7983 patch? That someone had done what I first had in mind (rename the old descents() and reuse the name for the actual descents) long ago, and now that my #7983 got merged in, the roles have switched? Either way, sorry for contributing to this muckup and thanks a lot for any help in understanding it. Best regards, Darij -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-combinat-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-combinat-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-combinat-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-combinat-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
