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Ticket #13566, comment 21
initial v1 9 9 Yes, that sounds looks like a sensible approach. Additionally, if that seems like a heavy-weight solution (it does to me), one should probably see if uniqueness is so important that it warrants a subclass and/or if there are other pressing reasons to make these subclasses. Reasons against uniqueness: 10 10 11 - `SimplicialComplex` is not a parent so there's sage-technical reason to enforce uniqueness (that's just a reason not ''for'' uniqueness)11 - `SimplicialComplex` is not a parent so there's no sage-technical reason to enforce uniqueness (that's just a reason ''not for'' uniqueness) 12 12 13 13 - While any two `Sphere(3)` complexes are isomorphic, they are not canonically so, so mathematically there can be good reasons to have multiple non-identical spheres in memory. 14 14 15 - It makes things like `Sphere` behave different from `SimplicialComplex` (and more generally not simpl e''be'' a `SimplicialComplex`. That makes code harder to maintain because now you have similar-but-subtly-different acting objects. You should only do that if there's a benefit elsewhere.15 - It makes things like `Sphere` behave different from `SimplicialComplex` (and more generally not simply ''be'' a `SimplicialComplex`. That makes code harder to maintain because now you have similar-but-subtly-different acting objects. You should only do that if there's a benefit elsewhere. 16 16 17 17 Should uniqueness of `SimplicialComplexes` be desirable in general (why? are they meant to become parents?) then it should perhaps be fixed on that level. Mutable obviously can't be forced to be unique, so then you should probably make two: `SimplicialComplex` and `MutableSimplicialComplex` (one a subclass of the other if at all possible), where you can make the immutable one unique by also inheriting from UniqueRepresentation. Going to the immutable one then of course should return an immutable ''copy'', not just change a flag.
