#12876: Fix element and parent classes of Hom categories to be abstract, and
simplify the Hom logic.
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       Reporter:  nthiery            |         Owner:  nthiery                  
     
           Type:  enhancement        |        Status:  needs_review             
     
       Priority:  major              |     Milestone:  sage-5.1                 
     
      Component:  categories         |    Resolution:                           
     
       Keywords:  categories, Hom    |   Work issues:  Fix ring_refcount_dict 
problem
Report Upstream:  N/A                |     Reviewers:  Simon King               
     
        Authors:  Nicolas M. ThiƩry  |     Merged in:                           
     
   Dependencies:  #12875, #12877     |      Stopgaps:                           
     
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Changes (by SimonKing):

  * status:  needs_work => needs_review


Old description:

> This patch fixes the parent and element classes for Hom categories to
> be purely abstract, and simplifies the Hom logic:
>
> - Unified the logic for selecting the class when building a Homset
>   (e.g. Homset, RingHomset, HeckeModuleHomspace, ...). This is now
>   systematically done through the _Hom_ hook. The logic still has a
>   fundamental flaw, but that's for the later #10668.
> - The cache for Hom is handled at a single point in Hom
>   In particular, homsets created via the _Hom_ hook are now unique.
> - If category is None, Hom simply calls itself with the meet of the
>   categories of the parent, which removes a cache handling duplication.
> - Parent.Hom calls  Hom directly (removes duplicate _Hom_ logic).
> - ParentWithBase.Hom was redundant and is gone.
> - Reduce the footprint of the current trick to delegate
>   Hom(F,F)(on_basis=...) to module_morphism, allow for the diagonal
>   option too, an make sure the homset category is set properly.
> - Update a doctest in sage.modules.vector_space_homspace to take into
>   account that homsets created via _Hom_ are now unique.
> - Scheme is (apparently) an abstract base class; so it should not be
>   instantiated. I changed some doctests in
>   sage.schemes.generic.SchemeMorphism to use instead the concrete
>   Spec(ZZ). Those doctests were breaking because Scheme does not
>   implement equality, which is required for Hom caching.
>
> As a byproduct, the HeckeModules category does not import any more
> HeckeModulesHomspace, which was a recurrent source of import loops.
>
> #11935 depends on this ticket

New description:

 This patch fixes the parent and element classes for Hom categories to
 be purely abstract, and simplifies the Hom logic:

 - Unified the logic for selecting the class when building a Homset
   (e.g. Homset, RingHomset, HeckeModuleHomspace, ...). This is now
   systematically done through the _Hom_ hook. The logic still has a
   fundamental flaw, but that's for the later #10668.
 - The cache for Hom is handled at a single point in Hom
   In particular, homsets created via the _Hom_ hook are now unique.
 - If category is None, Hom simply calls itself with the meet of the
   categories of the parent, which removes a cache handling duplication.
 - Parent.Hom calls  Hom directly (removes duplicate _Hom_ logic).
 - ParentWithBase.Hom was redundant and is gone.
 - Reduce the footprint of the current trick to delegate
   Hom(F,F)(on_basis=...) to module_morphism, allow for the diagonal
   option too, an make sure the homset category is set properly.
 - Update a doctest in sage.modules.vector_space_homspace to take into
   account that homsets created via _Hom_ are now unique.
 - Scheme is (apparently) an abstract base class; so it should not be
   instantiated. I changed some doctests in
   sage.schemes.generic.SchemeMorphism to use instead the concrete
   Spec(ZZ). Those doctests were breaking because Scheme does not
   implement equality, which is required for Hom caching.

 As a byproduct, the HeckeModules category does not import any more
 HeckeModulesHomspace, which was a recurrent source of import loops.

 #11935 depends on this ticket

 Apply:

  [attachment:trac_12876_category-fix_abstract_class-nt-rel11521.patch]

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Comment:

 I have rebased your patch relative to #11521 (as I said: This already has
 positive review).

 Please have a look whether you are happy with my changes: I only changed
 sage/categories/homset.py, by using the :trac: directive in two places,
 fixing one hunk that has only applied with fuzz and removing the import of
 Sets. Apart from that, I adopted your logic of constructing the homset.

 So far, I have tested sage/categories/homset.py and have verified that the
 previously failing tests are indeed fixed by #11521 (in fact, I also had
 some other pathes applied, but I am convinced that ##11521 suffices). I am
 now running the full tests suite, with ''only'' #11521 (and its dependency
 #715) and the new patch (and its dependencies #12875 and #12877).

 Apply trac_12876_category-fix_abstract_class-nt-rel11521.patch

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