I think its mostly there for convenience. Try passing in the empty list and then overriding gens() and ngens() for starters. Perhaps look into the source to see what it actually ends up doing with them...
On Apr 29, 2007, at 12:15 AM, Mike Hansen wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to implement symmetric functions in SAGE and would like to > define them as an algebra that fits into SAGE's framework and plays > nicely with the rest of SAGE. But, it seems that Ring and Algebra are > subclasses of ParentWithGens which requires a (finite) list of > generators. What do you do when you want to implement an algebra with > an infinite number of generators? > > Somewhat related, what do you do when the generators for your algebra > are combinatorial objects so that it really doesn't make sense to > translate them to an alphanumeric value? > > --Mike > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
