I’m not sure this is relevant to your issue, but FWIW, I tried in recent versions of Pari, and noticed two things: - “?qfminim" documents the use of ‘b’ as the second argument, while "??qfminim" documents the use of ‘B’. - using the forms “b=“ and “B=“ in the calls with a second argument makes no difference in the outcome (same values).
HTH Justin > On Sep 20, 2021, at 08:15 , Nils Bruin <nbr...@sfu.ca> wrote: > > > I noticed that in pari.qfminim; from 9.3 to 9.4 there was a trivial change: > the second parameter changed name from 'b' to 'B'. This breaks code that > calls it with 'b' as a keyword. I had trouble tracing this change, but it > looks like this is in some automatically generated interface. > > It's generally not a good idea to break compatibility with such trivial > changes. Is this indeed stemming from pari? In that case how does pari get > away with it? Do they only have positional arguments? Or do they have a > different place where they save their allowed names/aliases for keywords? > > If this really is a peculiarity of pari that we have to live with, we should > perhaps document to not depend on keyword arguments [which, when I checked, > people haven't really done for the 'b' parameter, but are doing for the > 'flags' parameter]. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/9a9b098a-55f3-4675-968b-3caf77fa607bn%40googlegroups.com. -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon at Large Director Institute for the Enhancement of the Director's income ----------- -- They said it couldn't be done, but sometimes, it doesn't work out that way. - Casey Stengel -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/DA1A9BC8-DBB6-4FD0-BA40-948EFD1E3088%40mac.com.
