On Sunday, April 20, 2014 8:53:55 AM UTC-7, Simon King wrote: > > Hi John, > > On 2014-04-20, John H Palmieri <jhpalm...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > > For the sake of tab completion, and for consistency with how other > groups > > are accessed, you should be able to do "groups.free(...)" also. Without > > this and with just Groups().free(...), it might be hard to figure out > how > > to create free groups. Should we have a top-level "algebras" object with > > the same kind of functionality? Probably not a bad idea. > > Turning it into static methods of "Algebras" and "Groups" would have a > similar effect. >
If I type "Groups().<TAB>", nothing helpful is returned, and I wouldn't expect anything helpful to be returned, given my experience with tab completion: the parentheses throw it off. I didn't think that Travis was suggesting that Groups.Free(...) should work, but that's another option. Still, since we already have various families of groups available via "groups.blah(...)", I think adding free groups to this makes sense: "groups.blah(...)" should be the access to point to constructing as many groups as possible. (See also "graphs.blah", "matrix.blah", "simplicial_complexes.blah", and probably some others.) > I guess that ideally "Modules.free(ZZ,3)" and "Modules(ZZ).free(3)" should > both work, and return the free rank 3 ZZ-module. > Sounds good. > > My 0.02€ > Simon > > John -- 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/d/optout.
