Indeed, the whole reason many of us do any work on Sage is to help our research projects. The principle of helping Sage to help our individual mathematical pursuits is actually what makes it consistently stronger as a system.
Find Stat is a great tool for the community, and I think there are other contexts even inside of Sage where identifying maps between combinatorial objects could be quite helpful. (We were thinking today about objects with representations as different kinds of combinatorial objects, with different algorithms available in the different representations; having an explicit list of maps between such objects could be useful for some type-switching or coercion.) cheers! On Thursday, June 20, 2013 12:13:24 AM UTC+3, John Cremona wrote: > > I confess that I did not understand Nathan's objection, not being > familiar with find_stat or the kind of decorator used in that added > function. But I myself have added functions to Sage to help a > separate project which uses Sage, namely the lmfdb (see > http://www.lmfdb.org/). The cost to Sage users who never work with > elliptic curves and their labels seems trivial, and it never occurred > to me that anyone would object to such functionality. > > Perhaps I completely misunderstood though. > > John > > On 19 June 2013 21:57, Nathann Cohen <nathan...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> Everything can be rewritten more efficiently, just at a cost in code > size / > >> maintainability and human effort. Much like Python itself, decorators > are a > >> way to make code smaller and easier to read for humans, at a certain > >> performance penalty. Don't optimize for speed until profiling showed > that > >> this is a performance bottleneck. > > > > I am glad to know that there is a general-purpose rule to tell me that > > I should refrain from thinking. I guess that this also answers my > > other points about the development model. > > > > Thank you very much, > > > > Nathann > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "sage-devel" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to sage-devel+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to > > sage-...@googlegroups.com<javascript:>. > > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
