On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Nathan Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would you object to raising a general Warning with a message like the > following? > > "matrix indexing of the form x[0] is ambiguous, consider the explicit > format x[0,:]"
-1 I am not certain that there is universal agreement as to what x[0] or x[0,:] should return. Moreover, I don't think the phrase "ambiguous" is entirely correct. My understanding is that x[0] has a specified behavior at this point and that in a later release it will still have a specified behavior. But there is some discussion as to whether we should change that specific behavior. So it isn't that it is ambiguous exactly, but that we may change its meaning. I guess it might be reasonable to say something like "the developers are currently discussing changing the meaning of x[0] (and perhaps even x[0,:]), but we haven't agreed on how, or even if, we will change it." [If we are going to say that, we might want to suggest that our users consider using arrays--not that I am arguing for that :)] I don't think it is worth focusing much more effort on trying to come up with some language that we all agree on to indicate that we are discussing changing this in the future. We have made considerable progress in preparing for 1.1.0; we have nearly doubled the number of tests, fixed nearly 200 bugs, greatly improved the quality and coverage of our documentation, vastly improved MaskedArrays, fixed the histogram, etc. I think it may be time to release what we have at this point and start working on 1.2. -- Jarrod Millman Computational Infrastructure for Research Labs 10 Giannini Hall, UC Berkeley phone: 510.643.4014 http://cirl.berkeley.edu/ _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
