Open urkud opened 7 years ago
The reason we did so was because we do not have a substantial development of non-commutative rings. I'd like to wait with the change until there is a need for it. Thanks for the suggestion, though.
I was going to improve the linear algebra part of math-classes. In particular, it would be nice to just say "linear maps form a ring". Actually, I think that just renaming Ring
to CommutativeRing
without introducing non-commutative rings is a good thing, because it improves readability for mathematicians not familiar with this library.
BTW, what is the relation between Ring.v
(with Ring_theory.v
), Ncring.v
and Cring.v
in stdlib? They define rings in two different ways, and I failed to find conversion between these two versions.
Currently MathClasses defines
Ring
to be a commutative ring. I propose to rename it toCommutativeRing
, and introduce aRing
for non-commutative rings. Are there any objections? If no, I'll prepare a pull request.