On 10/11/06, Travis Oliphant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fernando Perez wrote:
> >IMHO, scipy should be within reason a strict superset of numpy. > > > > > This was not the relationship of scipy to Numeric. > > For me, it's the fact that scipy *used* to have the behavior that > > scipy.sqrt(-1) return 1j > > and now doesn't that is the kicker. That's fine, my only point was that we should really strive for consitency between the two. I think most users should be able to expect that numpy.foo(x) == scipy.foo(x) for all cases where foo exists in both. The scipy.foo() call might be faster, or take extra arguments for flexibility, and the above might only be true within floating point accuracy (since a different algorithm may be used), but hopefully functions with the same name do the same thing in both. I really think breaking this will send quite a few potential users running for the hills, and this is what I meant by 'superset'. Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. Cheers, f ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
