#12544: Switch cones to `PointCollection`
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Reporter: novoselt | Owner: mhampton
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_work
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-5.0
Component: geometry | Resolution:
Keywords: toric | Work issues: output
formatting
Report Upstream: N/A | Reviewers:
Authors: Andrey Novoseltsev | Merged in:
Dependencies: #11599, #11634, #12541, #12361 | Stopgaps:
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Changes (by novoselt):
* status: needs_review => needs_work
* work_issues: => output formatting
Comment:
The matrix which I want to see is `rays().matrix().transpose()` and typing
it every time instead of just `rays()` is annoying. Plus I'd like to see
that lattice indication, so I need to output it with `lattice()` and since
it is a double output I need to explicitly say `print` or `show`...
We have thought it through, but have different opinions ;-) Which (in my
opinion ;-)) indicates that other people also can prefer one or another.
Just as some may prefer terminal, others text notebook, and others typeset
notebook. We also have switches for, say, automatic symbolic variables,
and some LaTeX macros are created specifically to make output
customisable.
Note that in typeset notebook there is no issue of copy-pasting output
(nothing is really copy-pastable) and no issue of going over the border -
each cell has a scroll bar so matrices with a hundred columns are viewable
just fine. This leaves only one of your three objections applicable and I
agree that it is a bit confusing, but, again in my opinion, the transposed
matrix is more convenient to look at. For example, it allows you to see
(parts of) several horizontally-long matrices at the same time. For
vertically-long ones this is impossible and often you will not see the
command which has created the output.
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