On Nov 24, 2008, at 5:55 PM, Jarrod Millman wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Francesc Alted > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So, IMHO, I think it would be better to rename the inverse >> trigonometric >> functions from ``arc*`` to ``a*`` prefix. Of course, in order to do >> that correctly, one should add the new names and add a >> ``DeprecationWarning`` informing that people should start to use the >> new names. After two or three NumPy versions, the old function names >> can be removed safely. >> >> What people think? > > +1 > It seems there is a fair amount of favor for adding the new names. > There is some resistance to removing the old ones. I would be happy > to deprecate the old ones, but leave them in until we release a new > major release (i.e., NumPy 2.0.0). We could start creating a list of > API/ABI clean-ups for whenever we find a compelling reason to release > a new major version. In the meantime, we can leave the old names in > and just add a deprecation note to the docs. Once we are ready to > release 2.0, we can release a 1.x with deprecation warnings. > I tend to favor this approach.
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