#10483: Deprecate the misuse of symbolic variables as polynomial variable
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       Reporter:  SimonKing          |        Owner:  AlexGhitza
           Type:  defect             |       Status:  needs_work
       Priority:  major              |    Milestone:  sage-6.4
      Component:  basic arithmetic   |   Resolution:
       Keywords:  deprecation        |    Merged in:
  symbolic polynomial variable       |    Reviewers:  Karl-Dieter Crisman,
        Authors:  Simon King, Ralf   |  Jeroen Demeyer
  Stephan                            |  Work issues:
Report Upstream:  N/A                |       Commit:
         Branch:  public/10483-3     |  58bc7051c72099f619b25ba91407fe2f2d6e5cbb
   Dependencies:  #17406, #17407     |     Stopgaps:
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Comment (by rws):

 Replying to [comment:56 jdemeyer]:
 > To be clear: I'm not against adding `str()`, I am against adding of
 `str()` without justification.
 OK, you are right. For example, the case in `coding/linear_code.py(3004)`
 where the preconditions to `weight_enumerator()` state ```name2`` - string
 or symbolic variable`. Do we change the precondition to `string` instead
 of converting everything?

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