Hi Rob, On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Rob Beezer <goo...@beezer.cotse.net> wrote: > I think it is important that a graph has hundreds of methods, since > Sage can do hundreds of things to a graph. Tab-completion is great, > and more robust wild-cards on tab-completion would be even better > (isn't this one of Jason's favorite suggestions?). > > That said, not only is graph.py so big that doctesting is annoying, > but in my text editor there is a noticeable lag for the syntax > highlighting to catch-up when I temporarily unbalance a string or > parenthesis. Extremely annoying. (Yes, I should switch to emacs, or > vi, or something.) So a topical (algorithmic) decomposition of the > source would be a great help.
I think Jason's suggestion of importing a function into the namespace of GenericGraph is a very useful. The current interface is maintained while code we want to refactor would be centralized and would, presumably, help with long-term maintenance. In a sense, a very long-ish module could be unbloated as per Jason's suggestion while also lessening the annoyance with a programmer's text editor trying to catch up on syntax highlighting. > -1 to moratoriums as well. Fewer rules, and more thoughtful > decisions, guidance, discussion, and help. I can see some new very > basic function for graphs that Sage does not have (not sure what that > would be) that naturally belongs at a high level, so maybe graph.py is > exactly where it should be. When I thought about a moratorium on adding new methods to any of the various graph class definitions, I had in mind the addition of actual method definition. It never occurred to me to use aliases via function import to get a function into the namespace of a class definition. I learnt something new today. -- Regards Minh Van Nguyen -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
