On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Travis Oliphant wrote: > I am, however, sympathetic to the arguments for wanting > floating-point defaults. I wanted to change this > originally but was convinced to not make such a major > change for back-ward compatibility (more on that later).
Before 1.0, it seems right to go with the best design and take some short-run grief for it if necessary. If the right default is float, but extant code will be hurt, then let float be the default and put the legacy-code fix (function redefinition) in the compatability module. One view ... Alan Isaac Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/numpy-discussion
