[sage-combinat-devel] Re: Categories, Parents, Elements

2018-05-18 Thread Travis Scrimshaw
> > > Then I can think of the set of Tableaux as the parent and lists of > objects > > as elements. > > You say that you "think of the *set* of Tableaux" as the parent? That > doesn't > sound promising at all. Although I don't know which notion you are using, > it seems likely to me that

[sage-combinat-devel] Re: Categories, Parents, Elements

2018-05-18 Thread Simon King
Hi Bruce, On 2018-05-18, Bruce wrote: > As I understand it, in sage, the way to implement this is to have a > category. Provided that what you are implementing does in fact form a mathematical category (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_(mathematics)) > However

[sage-combinat-devel] Categories, Parents, Elements

2018-05-18 Thread Bruce
I am struggling with the Categories/Parents/Elements structure and am hoping someone can help me. The reason I want to use this is that I have a construction which I want to use in several similar, but different contexts. If I was writing a standalone python package I would have an abstract