Hello !

I'm finally back to the civilisation if you want us to deal with this patch :-)

Nathann

On 29 August 2011 15:46, Nathann Cohen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Jan !!!
>
> I am sorry for my veeeery slow answers, I am on vacation right now, with
> very very bad WiFi connections when I get some. If you think you would sleep
> better with copying the implementation given in the paper, then the best is
> probably to write a patch for this. I like mine better, just because I feel
> like I understand how it works, but to be honest I do not really mind in
> this case as it is sooooo easy to check whether the code is correct. What
> would you think of writing a patch to change the current behaviour to match
> the paper using your code, while letting my version of it (the updated/fixed
> one) in the code as a comment ?
>
> Before returning the result, it should be checked, for instance like I did
> in my patch. If at some point the value returned is incorrect, the exception
> should be
> "There was an error in the computed answer... Please report the bug" or
> something alike so that we quickly learn of it and fix the mistake. What do
> you think ?
>
> What I fear the most are silent mistakes.. The ones you do not notice. In
> these situations I don't mind Sage answering me that it wasn't able to do
> the computations, especially when the patch is already written :-)
>
> If you have time to create the patch, I will try to review it as soon as I
> get back to the civilisation (possibly next friday). Otherwise we'll talk
> about it then :-)
>
> Thank you for your work, by the way !
>
> Nathann

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