On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Charles R Harris
<[email protected]>wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Enthought <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> This should be changed back so that the former works and the later does
>> not.   It was intentional that the former worked --- it was consistent with
>> broadcasting rules.
>>
>> A (1,20) array can be interpreted as a (20,) array.
>>
>>
> So should a (1,1,1,1,20) array also be interpreted as a (20,) array? From
> what you say, an arbitrary number of 1's can not only be appended on the
> left, the usual broadcasting, but an arbitrary number of 1's can also be
> removed. Is that so?
>
>
The point being, that assignment is now a special case that does not follow
the same rules as, say, addition.

Chuck
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