Am Freitag, 11. Januar 2013 00:53:08 UTC+1 schrieb Nils Bruin: > > > > It could be more appropriate to fix this by making 2x2 matrices always > immutable (then the methods accessing that can be special-cases on the > class) or by lying and just making set_immutable a no-op. >
this could be one way, but maybe some other functionallity gets broken then. > > Or perhaps by documenting "2x2 matrices aren't a full implementation > of matrices, but we inherit from it anyway by way of a hack. Don't > expect that ... will always properly work. Only use 2x2 matrices when > you need the speed and don't care about the unimplemented features". > I think as long as we inherit from one object, we should implement all base methods. An 'end-user'-class should not have unimplemented functions. the best would be, to do some timing tests, in order to see how much adding this line affects the performance. bg, Johannes -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. 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. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
