On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 3:09:34 PM UTC-4, Volker Braun wrote: > > +1 to: > > * rename v.normalization() -> v.normal_form() unless somebody has a better > name > * replace v.normalization() with he usual division by L2-norm. >
And perhaps have a warning to be printed for the next 12 months (?) of Sage releases along with that in case someone is relying on the old code. > > You can't deprecate the change gradually, but sometimes things have to > change to improve. > > In this case, I agree that the confusion is pretty important to rectify. FYI to all - there is more interesting discussion on what the "right" way is, particularly if there isn't an L2 norm, on the ticket in question. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
