#18036: I should not be symbolic
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Reporter: vdelecroix | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-6.6
Component: number fields | Resolution:
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Comment (by mmezzarobba):
Replying to [comment:11 mmezzarobba]:
> Replying to [comment:10 vdelecroix]:
> > I do not quite understand why you need the creation of a new class of
`NumberFieldQQi`... is that only for the special method you need in the
element class?
>
> I don't remember, it could be that the reason no longer exists due to
later changes.
One reason was that having separate classes makes it easy to test if we
are in the special case of QQ[i] using `isinstance`. In the case of the
parent class, this is convenient when specifying coercions, for instance.
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