On 2012/08/23 2:54 PM, Fernando Perez wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote:
>> OK, here are mine: I oppose overloading plot with a "stacked" kwarg and
>> functionality.  It is complicated enough as it is.  I don't see any
>> problem with having "stackplot" and hist(..., stacked=True).  They are
>> just not all that similar.  Nor are "plot" and "stackplot" so very
>> similar.  But stacked and non-stacked histograms *are* very similar, so
>> using the kwarg to turn on stacking there makes sense.
>
> Quick q: how would things like log plots be handles for the stacked
> case?  Log plots are really just axis scale choices on a normal plot,
> but for historical reasons they happen to be implemented via a bunch
> of different functions.  But for that reason, any interface changes
> that make sense for plot pretty should also apply to the *log*
> functions, no?

I'm not sure I understand what you are getting at, but I don't think 
there should be any interface changes for plot or for their log variants.

Eric

>
> Cheers,
>
> f
>


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