Ed Schofield wrote: >On 22/06/2006, at 12:40 AM, Bill Baxter wrote: > > > >>Actually I think using mat() (just an alias for the matrix >>constructor) is a bad way to do it. That mat() (and most others on >>that page) should probably be replaced with asmatrix() to avoid the >>copy. >> >> > >Perhaps the 'mat' function should become an alias for 'asmatrix'. >I've thought this for a while. Then code and documentation like this >page could remain short and simple without incurring the performance >penalty. > > I wanted this too a while back but when I tried it a lot of code broke because there were quite a few places (in SciPy and NumPy) that were using the fact that mat returned a copy of the array.
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