Words Sprint (FrancoSaliola, Sébastien Labbé, Vincent Delecroix)

• New implementation for words:

  • new design of the abstract words (here : SemanticOfWords)

  • faster [some caching will be implemented]
  • space efficient
  • special class for words over an alphabet of at most two letters (each letter takes one bit)

  • [DONE: Franco added two new classes for caching for words from iterators and functions; caching can be turned off through WordOptions]: consider using Streams and (Lazy)Familys here. [Streams doesn't exactly do what we need, but the ideas are interesting (caching)]

  • discussion about the content-datastructure-as-subobject (anti?)design pattern

  • [DONE: Franco implemented any CombinatorialClass as an alphabet] : allow for words over arbitrary alphabets? (example, the alphabet of the elements of a group)

• New classes:

  • Sebastien, Vincent: Language

  • Vincent: FixedPointOfMorphism (things like the language, iterator with logarithmic storage, complexity, ..., can be computed).

  • Lyndon word class

  • Dyck Word, discussions about getting DyckWord to inherit from Language, comparisons of efficiency.

  • bi-infinite words, or more generally, words indexed by objects other than integers
  • bi-infinite alphabets (like integers)
• New words:

  • [DONE: Sebastien] Generalized Thue-Morse words to words.[TAB]

  • [needs fixing] Add Random Word (combine arguments m and alphabet)
  • fix random_element for Words

  • Random Testing (how do we do this?) See : http://www.sagemath.org/doc/prog/node14.html

• Geometrization:

  • Vincent, Sebasiten, Franco: WordMorphism, following the work of G. Rauzy, A. Siegel, P. Arnoux, ...

  • Sebastien: Word Paths, via words as paths in a lattice

• Miscellaneous:
  • add notes about words library

  • [DONE: Sebastien's patch is in the s-combinat tree] trac #4954: Words_over_Alphabet should check the type of input alphabet (related to allowing CombinatorialClass as alphabets)

  • finish and post words_new_fct_sl.patch to trac #5037

  • [DONE: Franco implemented an alphabet of integers, ordered naturally] discussions regarding the trac #5002

  • look through the algorithms for finite words, and identify the ones that need improvement (some are really slow, like is_subword_of)

  • WordMorphism, inherits from SageObject and it should be a more general Morphism class.