[sage-devel] Re: Senseless leading_ methods introduced on all matrices

2017-08-20 Thread Johan S. H. Rosenkilde
Travis Scrimshaw writes: >> While it is arguably too rigid to say that this is "senseless" (as I >> wrote in the subject), > > You already did that, and because you started off calling them "senseless," > you have polluted this issue with your heavily loaded question. That is > unfair and

[sage-devel] Re: Senseless leading_ methods introduced on all matrices

2017-08-19 Thread Travis Scrimshaw
> Compared to Sage 8.0, matrices in Sage 8.1.beta1 now have a host of new > methods: > > - leading_coefficient > - leading_item > - leading_monomial > - leading_support > - leading_term > > These are inherited from the category of finite dimensional modules with > basis of

[sage-devel] Re: Senseless leading_ methods introduced on all matrices

2017-08-18 Thread Simon King
Hi Johan, On 2017-08-18, Johan S. H. Rosenkilde wrote: > My question here is whether it is really intended that all matrices get > stuck with these (almost) senseless methods? I didn't introduce them, but I believe it would be quite useful for my applications (provided it is