#11474: Elliptic curves should be unique parent structures
-----------------------------------+--------------------------
       Reporter:  SimonKing        |        Owner:  cremona
           Type:  defect           |       Status:  needs_info
       Priority:  major            |    Milestone:  sage-6.2
      Component:  elliptic curves  |   Resolution:
       Keywords:  unique parent    |    Merged in:
        Authors:  Simon King       |    Reviewers:
Report Upstream:  N/A              |  Work issues:
         Branch:                   |       Commit:
   Dependencies:                   |     Stopgaps:
-----------------------------------+--------------------------

Comment (by sbesnier):

 pbruin wrote:
 >One remark about the approach to follow to make elliptic curves satisfy
 unique representation: it turns out that there is an important problem
 with using UniqueRepresentation (which Simon's patch introduces) together
 with caching (which is certainly used by EllipticCurve), see
 ​https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sage-devel/q5uy_lI11jg. If I
 remember correctly, for non-trivial parents it is recommended to use a
 UniqueFactory, which gives more flexibility than UniqueRepresentation. (I
 personally also understand UniqueFactory better than the __classcall__()
 magic of Simon's patch, but that may be simply because I am too familiar
 with this part of the internals of Sage.) Maybe Simon or someone else can
 elaborate on this point?

 If I correctly understand Nils position, it would be better to use a
 !UniqueFactory isn't it and not the !UniqueRepresentation ? In that case,
 is it usefull to gitify this !UniqueRepresentation patch ?

--
Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/11474#comment:25>
Sage <http://www.sagemath.org>
Sage: Creating a Viable Open Source Alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica, 
and MATLAB

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"sage-trac" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email 
to [email protected].
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-trac.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

Reply via email to