#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-5.4    
                   
      Component:  categories                      |    Resolution:              
                   
       Keywords:  categories, Hom                 |   Work issues:  add commit 
message to one patch
Report Upstream:  N/A                             |     Reviewers:  Simon King  
                   
        Authors:  Nicolas M. ThiƩry               |     Merged in:              
                   
   Dependencies:  #11521, #12215, #12313, #13412  |      Stopgaps:              
                   
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Changes (by SimonKing):

  * dependencies:  #11521, #12215, #12313 => #11521, #12215, #12313, #13412


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
>
> Apply:
>
>  * [attachment:trac_12876_category-fix_abstract_class-sk-rel11521.patch]
>  * [attachment:trac_12876-reviewer.patch]
>  * [attachment:trac_12876_category-fix_abstract_class-nt-rel11521-review-
> nt.patch]
>  * [attachment:trac_12876_fix_infinite_polynomial_ring.patch]
>  * [attachment:trac_12876_another_reviewer.patch]

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_abstract_classes_for_hom.patch]

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Comment:

 I produced a combined patch. I added #12412, because it allows to remove
 the ugly alias for `_Hom_` in sage.rings.ring. Because of that last
 change, I keep it "needs review" for now, but will change it into positive
 review provided the tests pass.

 Apply  trac_12876_category_abstract_classes_for_hom.patch

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