#18099: Prepare linear_code for inheritance
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Reporter: dlucas | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_work
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-6.6
Component: coding theory | Resolution:
Keywords: sd66 | Merged in:
Authors: David Lucas | Reviewers:
Report Upstream: N/A | Work issues:
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u/dlucas/prepare_linear_code_for_inheritance|
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Comment (by ncohen):
Hello,
> 1. What is the point of having two classes `AbstractLinearCode` and
`LinearCode`. I would naturally name `LinearCode` the one from which I
need to inherit from. Why not `LinearCode` and `LinearCode_generic`
instead?
I am not sure that I totally understand your question, but I may be able
to help a bit.
The class which is currently named "LinearCode" should (to me) be named
"LinearCodeFromMatrix" in the code [1]. It is meant to represent a linear
code *defined* from a matrix. On the other hand, they will have some code
which will *not* be defined from a matrix [2]. Thus, I thought that it
made sense to have a class defining methods which apply to all kinds of
codes in some astract class (I don't care much what the name of that class
is).
Nathann
P.S.: As usual, when we discuss things "live", important information is
left out from the ticket's comments.
[1] At user level, I don't see anything wrong with having it aliased as
"LinearCode", as it is the easiest way for users to define a code.
[2] Like Reed-Solomon codes. They apparently have better ways to compute
things than to work on a matrix.
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