Hi John,

On 2014-11-26, john_perry_usm <john.pe...@usm.edu> wrote:
> I would propose the following:
>
> *f.coeffs?* should state something to the effect of, "Returns all the 
> coefficients of a dense representation of f."
>
> *f.coefficients?* should state something like, "Returns all the 
> coefficients of a sparse representation of f; that is, it returns only the 
> non-zero coefficients, in a list correlated with f.exponents." (Notice the 
> explicit statement of the correlation, reinforcing sparse representation.)
>
> *f.list?* should be mostly identical to f.coeffs?
>
> I'm willing to open a ticket & author a patch to this effect, if at least 
> one other person agrees here.

It is about the documentation, without changing the code (so, no harm
would result to applications). As usual, explicit is better then the
need to infer the meaning of the doc. So, +1 from me.

Cheers,
Simon



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