Bill Baxter wrote: > On 3/24/07, Anne Archibald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> You could do this, and for your >> own code maybe it's worth it, but I think it would be confusing in the >> library. > > Could be. Doesn't seem so confusing to me as long as it's documented > clearly in the docstring, but YMMV. I don't know. Given our previous history with convenience functions with different calling semantics (anyone remember rand()?), I think it probably will confuse some people. I'd really like to see it on a cookbook page, though. I'd use it. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion