Re: [sage-devel] Why do Polyhedron objects inherit from "Element"?

2017-05-10 Thread mforets
Does this shed some light to [#15253](https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/15253) ? El viernes, 5 de mayo de 2017, 8:07:02 (UTC+2), jplab escribió: > > > > > >> > The reason to wonder is that it seems to provide methods to a >> polyhedron >> > object which make no sense: >> > >> > >> >

Re: [sage-devel] Why do Polyhedron objects inherit from "Element"?

2017-05-05 Thread jplab
> > > The reason to wonder is that it seems to provide methods to a polyhedron > > object which make no sense: > > > > > > .is_idempotent() > > .is_zero() > > .n() > > .numerical_approx() > > .subs() > > .substitute() > > This is a *mess* that should actually be removed from Element!

Re: [sage-devel] Why do Polyhedron objects inherit from "Element"?

2017-05-04 Thread Vincent Delecroix
On 04/05/2017 12:30, jplab wrote: Dear all, Some time ago, during the Sage Days 84 in Olot, https://wiki.sagemath.org/days84 some participants (including myself) wondered why would Polyhedron objects inherit from the "Element" class. The reason to wonder is that it seems to provide methods

[sage-devel] Why do Polyhedron objects inherit from "Element"?

2017-05-04 Thread jplab
Dear all, Some time ago, during the Sage Days 84 in Olot, https://wiki.sagemath.org/days84 some participants (including myself) wondered why would Polyhedron objects inherit from the "Element" class. The reason to wonder is that it seems to provide methods to a polyhedron object which make