On Saturday, September 22, 2012 2:11:08 AM UTC+1, Travis Scrimshaw wrote: > normal_form() is good, and to be standard with the other code packages > I've seen, dividing by the L2-norm should be normalize().
As Robert pointed out, normalize() is bad because the name implies that the vector is mutated (which is not what the method does). It should have been normalization() from the start. So the updated proposal is: 1) deprecate normalize() and point to normalization() and normal_form() 2) normalization() is division by L2-norm 3) normal_form() is the old normalize() 4) alias norm() -> normalization() to save typing -- 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.
