This example is dumb because it does not give any real benefit but it will do. On the command line you could run something like
sage: B = matrix() sage: B.T.roo<Tab> and get sage: B.T.rook_vector but sage: sage: B.transpose().roo<tab> will complete to useless stuff. Now as I said this does not make a lot of sense with matrices. On the other hand suppose you have a mathematical structure A endowed with building blocks S and a pointer to the current block. Suppose also that each building block has some method defined. Then properties allow to autocomplete things like sage: A.current_S.some_method() The same example does not work if A.current_S is a method itself and not a property. By this I do not imply that properties should be preserved in sage. I am only answering your question on which benefit is there in omitting the parenthesis. Best S. * Johan S. R. Nielsen <santaph...@gmail.com> [2016-04-27 13:46:08]: > > One advantage of properties over methods is that they autocomplete > > I don't understand? Tab-completion covers both methods and properties in > all IDEs I'm aware of. > > Best, > Johan > > -- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
