On Feb 26, 2009, at 12:25 PM, Florent Hivert wrote:

>       Hi Jason,
>
>>> We had removed it from our list of alternatives, because we will be
>>> using the concept of "size" elsewhere in combinatorics (the size  
>>> of a
>>> tree, of a permutation, and more generally of a combinatorial  
>>> object),
>>> and we could run into a conflict later on. However, we do not  
>>> have an
>>> explicit example yet of such conflict, so this option is not closed.
>
>> In the sage graphs, g.size() gives the number of edges in the graph.
>
> Edge ??? Why more edge than vertex or edge+vertex... I don't want  
> to be rude
> or to patronize, after all I'm very new to sage. But I think that  
> choosing
> such ambiguous name is a serious obstacle of name coherency trough  
> sage.

I find this surprising too. At least graphs have a num_edges and  
num_vertices method (or, I guess num_verts?)

- Robert


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