Thanks for the nice explanations. I guess that in the open source world, it is very difficult to enforce consistency.
On Monday, April 27, 2015 at 9:48:47 PM UTC+2, Patrick O'Leary wrote: > > The chronology goes more like, "we had a method named `sprandn`, then > someone wrote a style guide which contradicts it." As you correctly > guessed/looked up this name is from the MATLAB branch of the Julia family > tree. > > I suspect sparse matrix users will grab pitchforks if you force them to > prepend the full word "sparse" to every one of their method names. (I live > in a dense matrix universe and have no dog in that fight.) >
