Hi Jeroen, On 2017-03-01, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote: >> What about _latex_? Would you plan to change that, too? Sage objects and >> elements have lots of single-underscore methods, like _repr_, _mul_, etc. > > Well, I would put _latex_ in the same basket as _pari_. > But _repr_ and _mul_ are different: they deal with the implementation of > SageObject/Element so this is *not* about those methods.
I don't think they are that much different in spirit. In all cases, the single underscore methods are for implementing functionality in a Sage-specific way, instead of overriding a Python method: A magical one (.__repr__()) in the case of _repr_, a "visible" one (.pari()) in the case of _pari_, similar _latex_ etc. I think that's a very clear and easy-to-recall scheme, and therefore I don't see the point of changing _foo_ into to_foo for foo in ["pari", "latex", "gap"]. Cheers, Simon -- 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.
