> Given f in R[x,y], I think f(x=a, y=b) should do exactly the same
> thing as f(a,b). The parent should be the same as R.base_ring()(0) + a
> + b.
+1

> The difficult case is what to do for f(x=5). Should that be the same
> as f(x=5, y=y) or a univariate polynomial?
I would certainly read f(x=5) as short for f(x=5,y=y). Hence (by the
same reasoning as above) I would expect a bivariate polynomial as
answer.

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