On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Bill Page <bill.p...@newsynthesis.org>wrote:
> > 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. > The reason we have coercion is so that we don't have to do this. David --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
