Remove `syntax_checker` argument to `QuantinuumBackend.cost()`

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Remove `syntax_checker` argument to `QuantinuumBackend.cost()`

cqc-alec opened this issue a year ago · 2 comments

It is a footgun. Just have it automatically detected when possible, and error otherwise (which shouldn't happen).

Answer 1 · 2023-11-28T11:39:21.000Z

Currently emulator devices will error if we just remove the argument since they don't have associated syntax checkers. Until this changes we will have to figure it out by mangling the name or having a hard-coded dictionary.

Answer 2 · 2023-11-28T11:59:29.000Z

We should also handle the case where the backend is itself a syntax-checker/