On Dec 7, 6:56 pm, Robert Miller <r...@rlmiller.org> wrote:
> I'm not sure it is a good idea to *remove* the methods from the object
> of which they are a natural function. I've seen this argument many
> times before, and I really like this as an organizing method.
> Everything else you say seems like a good idea to me: improving the
> documentation, having the actual implementations in their own module,
> cleaning up source code, making it all more accessible.
>
> I think you can accomplish all these goals without "unbloating"
> graphs. I think Sage users have gotten used to (please feel free to
> correct me on this, Sage users!) looking for a method via tab
> completion.

10-20 methods, OK. But 200 methods via tab completion?
The latter is largely usless.
It screams for a restructuring...

> I worry about how many features we have for graphs already
> which I have seen users surprised to find. Cleaning up documentation
> might make more people more aware of what Sage can do, but I think
> moving these methods (at least in name) out of the graph classes would
> be a push in the other direction.
>
> --
> Robert L. Millerhttp://www.rlmiller.org/

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