On 10/11/06, Travis Oliphant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes on the extra operators. No on changing the precedence of &, that would just confuse the heck out of all us c/c++ programmers; && and || would be good. Yes to something that improves on the buffer interface, although it is certainly usable right now.
Speaking long term, what about data types? The basic 80 bit extended precision float now occurs in 80, 96, and 128 bit versions depending on alignment. So what happens when quad precision, which will probably be in the next IEEE standard, comes down the pike and is 128 bits long? The length of a float will no longer be sufficient to distinguish the various types.
Chuck
Hi all,
Py3K is undergoing active development. This gives us an opportunity to
discuss more significant changes to the language that might improve the
experience of NumPy users.
We should form a list and start commenting on the py3k mailing lists
about what changes would be most helpful for our community.
Please provide examples of changes to Python that you think might help us.
A couple on my short list
1) Adding a *few* new infix operators.
a) an extra multiplication operator to distinguish between
element-by-element and dot
b) extending 'and' and 'or' to allow element-by-element logical
operations or adding && and ||
2) Lowering the precedence of & so that a > 8 & a < 10 works as you
would expect.
Yes on the extra operators. No on changing the precedence of &, that would just confuse the heck out of all us c/c++ programmers; && and || would be good. Yes to something that improves on the buffer interface, although it is certainly usable right now.
Speaking long term, what about data types? The basic 80 bit extended precision float now occurs in 80, 96, and 128 bit versions depending on alignment. So what happens when quad precision, which will probably be in the next IEEE standard, comes down the pike and is 128 bits long? The length of a float will no longer be sufficient to distinguish the various types.
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