Ticket #3494 (new enhancement)

Opened 7 months ago

Last modified 2 months ago

var --> name

Reported by: craigcitro Assigned to: craigcitro
Priority: major Milestone: sage-wishlist
Component: linear algebra Keywords:
Cc:

Description

Lots of things that are matrix-related in sage use var, whereas name would often be more appropriate. Someone should fix this.

Change History

11/13/2008 09:45:48 PM changed by jason

He's talking about the name of the keyword arguments. 

[23:39] <jason--> craigcitro: 3494 is awfully vague
[23:39] <craigcitro> hah, true
[23:39] <craigcitro> but it's also sad that it's not uniform
[23:39] <craigcitro> the number of times i have to try three different things to find the right argument is sad
[23:40] <jason--> Can you at least point out one instance?
[23:41] <craigcitro> charpoly, minpoly, eigenspaces
[23:41] <jason--> mabshoff: what is the status on 3435?
[23:41] <craigcitro> whereas, say, PolynomialRing uses name
[23:41] <craigcitro> seems like it should just uniformly be name.