On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Numpy already has a general mechanism for defining new dtypes and >> slotting them in so that they're supported by ndarrays, by the casting >> machinery, by ufuncs, and so on. In principle, we could implement > > Well, actually not in any useful sense, take a look at what Mark went > through for the half floats. There is a reason the NEP went with > parametrized dtypes and masks. But we would sure welcome a plan and code to > make it true, it is one of the areas that could really use improvement.
Err, yes, that's basically what the next few sentences say? This is basically a draft spec for implementing the parametrized dtypes idea. -- Nathaniel _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
