On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 05:55:30AM +0000, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> wouldn't EE be a more consistent choice, in line with QQ, ZZ, etc?
Just a couple cents:
- It's a bit different, since E is not a parent, but a
function/constructor returning an element.
- It's good to use E as notation in the *output* of UCF elements (it's
concise and widely use in the GAP community).
- It would be good to encourage the users to all use the same notation
for input, whenever convenient. E is a good candidate.
- I don't have a preference for whether E should be imported by
default or not in the Sage interpreter.
- Just for information, let me repeat here an alternative I mentioned
on the ticket:
sage: UCF.inject_shorthands()
sage: E(3)
We already do this for symmetric functions, and it's a good idiom
that could be generalized to other situations.
- I am not sure about E = UCF.gen, since it does not construct only
generators:
sage: E(6)
-E(3)^2
Cheers,
Nicolas
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