[sage-devel] Parent of polynomial evaluation dependent on names of variables?

2010-06-11 Thread Nils Bruin
I would expect that when one evaluates a polynomial, only the coercion properties of the *base ring* of the polynomial ring relative to the ring of definition of the evaluation point are important, but the example below gave me an unexpected negative answer. The fact that R is has an automatic

Re: [sage-devel] Parent of polynomial evaluation dependent on names of variables?

2010-06-11 Thread John Cremona
Nils, See http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8502. I had found that, depending on the base ring, the result of evaluating all the variables was sometimes in the coefficient ring and sometimes a (constant) polynomial. So I fixed it -- I think. But the result is clearly not perfect. John