Dear Ralf, Waldek, Due to other, by far more pressing issues, I'd like to stop work on this thread for now. I should have put in large letters at the beginning:
This is a theoretical question, no need for action right now. > I think, I stop here and wait for very concrete use cases of yours. The concrete use case was to replace the 188 declarations of coerce by a handful of declarations of CoercibleTo in the SPAD library. I think that this would make the library more user-friendly, and could be a first step towards removing i-coerce and i-coerfn. But I hesitate to write UnivariatePolynomial(var, R) == with Join(CoercibleTo SUP R, CoercibleTo Polynomial R, CoercibleTo DMP([var], R), CoercibleTo MPOLY([var], R) ...) This doesn't look right. Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ open-axiom-devel mailing list open-axiom-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-axiom-devel