On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Carl Witty wrote: > ... > Does this mean you want GF(5)(3)*2 and RR(pi)*2 to fail? These > currently work due to coercions that would be unsafe according to my > definition. >
The __mul__ method exported by GF(5) could accept integers as well as elements of GF(5), i.e. rely on operator polymorphism rather than non-strict coercion in such cases. Regards, Bill Page. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
