Somewhat similar in spirit, I think
that functions should try to return objects of the same type,
unless explicitly called with an argument to change such behavior.
It is not just the case of int and
Integer. This might happen with Integer vs. Rational, wh
I think it's fine to include a discussion of this in the developer's
manual: functions should return an integer rather than an int unless there
is a good reason not to (mandated by the language for __len__, to reduce
overhead for some internal functions).
David
On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 3:26 AM Kwan
On Monday, July 12, 2021 at 12:44:05 AM UTC+9 Nils Bruin wrote:
> I'd expect it's (1). A more nuanced version might be:
>
> (5) As a rule, an Integer should probably be returned if the code is
> probably going to interact with other sage code, but if you have good
> (efficiency) reasons to pre
