view(::MatElem, ::Int, ::Int) errors

[joschmitt]

This doesn't work:

julia> M = matrix(ZZ, [ 1 2 3 ; 4 5 6])
[1   2   3]
[4   5   6]

julia> view(M, 1, 1)
ERROR: StackOverflowError:
Stacktrace:
 [1] view(M::AbstractAlgebra.Generic.MatSpaceElem{BigInt}, rows::Int64, cols::Int64) (repeats 79984 times)
   @ AbstractAlgebra ~/.julia/dev/AbstractAlgebra/src/Matrix.jl:432

With Julia matrices it does:

julia> view(M.entries, 1, 1)
0-dimensional view(::Matrix{BigInt}, 1, 1) with eltype BigInt:
1

I guess we would have to add a type MatSpaceScalarView (?) to the view interface? Also this particular view function

AbstractAlgebra.jl/src/Matrix.jl

Line 429 in 6b230ed

function Base.view(M::MatElem,

seems very fishy to me.