On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 21:23, Darren Dale <dsdal...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 20:50, Darren Dale <dsdal...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 18:43, Darren Dale <dsdal...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> Here's the problem that I don't think many people appreciate: logical >>>>>> arguments suck just as much as personal experience in answering these >>>>>> questions. You can make perfectly structured arguments until you are >>>>>> blue in the face, but without real data to premise them on, they are >>>>>> no better than the gut feelings. They can often be significantly worse >>>>>> if the strength of the logic gets confused with the strength of the >>>>>> premise. >>>>> >>>>> If I recall correctly, the convention of not breaking ABI >>>>> compatibility in minor releases was established in response to the >>>>> last ABI compatibility break. Am I wrong? >>>> >>>> I'm not sure how this relates to the material quoted of me, but no, >>>> you're not wrong. >>> >>> Just trying to provide historical context to support the strength of >>> the premise. >> >> The existence of the policy is not under question (anymore; I settled >> that with old email a while ago). The question is whether to change >> the policy. > > So I have gathered. I question whether the concerns that lead to that > decision in the first place are somehow less important now.
And we're back to gut feeling territory again. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
