Re: [sage-devel] Re: Unifying, if it is not too troublesome ...

2010-11-29 Thread Nathann Cohen
> advantages are obvious, e.g. one will be able to get, say, all the > known to DB regular graphs on 15 vertices of degree 6 and diameter > 2... > That's a standard DB query then. Now one would have to browse the > source to answer this, it seems... Well, my question about a large number of method

[sage-devel] Re: Unifying, if it is not too troublesome ...

2010-11-28 Thread Dima Pasechnik
On Nov 29, 10:54 am, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > P.S. (if anybody has any smart idea about how to deal with classes > > having *far too many* different methods, I am also very interested. > > Something will have to be decided soon for the Graph class anyway... > > :-/ ) > > not that my reply quali

[sage-devel] Re: Unifying, if it is not too troublesome ...

2010-11-28 Thread Dima Pasechnik
> P.S. (if anybody has any smart idea about how to deal with classes > having *far too many* different methods, I am also very interested. > Something will have to be decided soon for the Graph class anyway... > :-/ ) not that my reply qualifies as very smart, but IMHO it's high time Sage has a dat

[sage-devel] Re: Unifying, if it is not too troublesome ...

2010-11-24 Thread Rob Beezer
I have thought for some time that it would be an improvement to have groups. work in much the same manner as graphs. and to have some of the less generally-useful groups moved out of the global namespace (after a proper deprecation of that behavior). And Dima's point (as on #9136) about buildin

[sage-devel] Re: Unifying, if it is not too troublesome ...

2010-11-24 Thread Dima Pasechnik
see my comment on trac #9136 for a complete example. On Nov 24, 11:17 pm, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > Are you reinventing the wheel? :-) > > One should be able to import into Sage any graph that GAP can make > using its package Grape. Grape is essentially doing what you seem to > be doing: takes a pe

[sage-devel] Re: Unifying, if it is not too troublesome ...

2010-11-24 Thread Dima Pasechnik
Are you reinventing the wheel? :-) One should be able to import into Sage any graph that GAP can make using its package Grape. Grape is essentially doing what you seem to be doing: takes a permutation group and constructs a graph invariant under it. E.g. gap> LoadPackage("grape"); gap> G:=NullGrap