Bug ID: 640332 "Need to specdisrep more systematically"

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Dieter Kaiser <drdieterkaiser at web.de> wrote:

> ...I do not know much about Poisson series. It is a bit tedious to insert a
> check for this special representation at a lot of places, perhaps we do
> it only at the places above to close the bug report.
>

Well, yes, of course addressing these specific cases is a good thing.

An alternative might be to add a warning about the use of poisson series
> into the documentation and let the handling to be incomplete.
>

I disagree. I think, in fact, we should be going in the *opposite* direction
and be able to depend on specrepcheck being used in appropriate places so
that we can be free to write *addition* special representations as needed.

           -s