On 2010-07-07, at 9:52 AM, Bruce Southey wrote: > This is very interesting work especially if can be used to extend or > replace the current record arrays (and perhaps structured arrays).
It's unlikely that this would happen. They serve a different purpose, as far as I can tell. It would be perfectly acceptable to have structured arrays with axis labels, for example. > If it can not then you really need to make a case for yet another data > structure. Currently we will have all these unnecessary and incompatible > hybrids rather than a single option - competition is not good. I really > dislike the current impasse with numpy's Matrix class and do not wish > this to happen again. There was discussion a month or two ago about deprecating matrix-array operations that introduced ambiguity, and I still think that's a reasonable compromise for people who like the matrix class for teaching. David _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
