I think it's fine to include a discussion of this in the developer's manual: functions should return an integer rather than an int unless there is a good reason not to (mandated by the language for __len__, to reduce overhead for some internal functions). David
On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 3:26 AM Kwankyu Lee <ekwan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Monday, July 12, 2021 at 12:44:05 AM UTC+9 Nils Bruin wrote: > >> I'd expect it's (1). A more nuanced version might be: >> >> (5) As a rule, an Integer should probably be returned if the code is >> probably going to interact with other sage code, but if you have good >> (efficiency) reasons to prefer a python integer or if the primary function >> is to be compatible with other python code (such as "len" methods) then >> returning a python integer should be fine. >> > > This sounds close to (2) as most of Sage library code is for mathematics. > > Do you or anyone object to include a hint of this policy in the developer > manual? > > -- > 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/553f7cad-3dcc-4a8c-a3c8-916e7b5706d8n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/553f7cad-3dcc-4a8c-a3c8-916e7b5706d8n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAChs6_%3Dm38VsmkqAqv9dMB2%3DSyb%2BfmNPZANrsAcwmG6JacXGww%40mail.gmail.com.
