#19929: GF(16) (without explicit variable name)
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Reporter: ncohen | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-7.1
Component: number fields | Keywords:
Merged in: | Authors: Nathann Cohen
Reviewers: | Report Upstream: N/A
Work issues: | Branch:
Commit: | Dependencies:
Stopgaps: |
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This branch is related to the following sage-devel conversation:
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sage-devel/MeuOjHf3vCw/discussion
The default name picked here is 'a'. Indeed, the default name 'conway'
proposed on the conversation did not seem adapted, as the default
behaviour of the constructor is 'conway=False'. I frankly admit that I do
not understand what is the expected behaviour of 'conway=False', but I
thought that setting a default name of 'conway' when a field is created
with 'conway=False' sounded like a bad idea.
I did not change the default value of 'name' in the function's definition
for disable an apparently desired behaviour of 'prefix'. I don't
understand why we need all of 'name/names/prefix' in the same function,
but I learnt that asking questions like that only brought me pain and
suffuring.
Nathann
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