improve eigvals & co docstrings #43904
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The docstring of
eigvalsreferred toeigen!for keyword arguments, buteigen!'s docstring doesn't actually say anything and you actually have to checkeigen.I've also made some other docstrings more consistent ("Compute" vs "Computes" etc).
Question: the docstring of
eigen(A, B) -> GeneralizedEigencurrently refers toeigen!for keyword arguments - which is similarly unhelpful. The only accepted kwarg of theeigen!(A, B)methods issortby, similar toeigen(A). Would it not be more userfriendly to simply mentionsortby(and refer toeigen(A)docstring for detailed comments)? Would be happy to change it in this PR as well, if you like.