On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Mark Wiebe <[email protected]> wrote: > It appears to me that one of the biggest reason some of us have been talking > past each other in the discussions is that different people have different > definitions for the terms being used. Until this is thoroughly cleared up, I > feel the design process is tilting at windmills. > In the interests of clarity in our discussions, here is a starting point > which is consistent with the NEP. These definitions have been added in a > glossary within the NEP. If there are any ideas for amendments to these > definitions that we can agree on, I will update the NEP with those > amendments. Also, if I missed any important terms which need to be added, > please propose definitions for them.
That sounds good - I've only been scanning these discussions and it is confusing. > NA (Not Available) > A placeholder for a value which is unknown to computations. That > value may be temporarily hidden with a mask, may have been lost > due to hard drive corruption, or gone for any number of reasons. > This is the same as NA in the R project. Could you expand that to say how sums and products act with NA (since you do so for the IGNORE case). Thanks, Peter _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
