>> >> Proposal >> ------------- >> >> * Deprecate the use of "C" and "F" meaning backwards and forwards >> index ordering for ravel, reshape >> * Prefer "Z" and "N", being graphical representations of unraveling in >> 2 dimensions, axis1 first and axis0 first respectively (excellent >> naming idea by Paul Ivanov) >> >> What do y'all think? >> > > Personally I think it is clear enough and that "Z" and "N" would confuse > me just as much (though I am used to the other names). Also "Z" and "N" > would seem more like aliases, which would also make sense in the memory > order context. > If anything, I would prefer renaming the arguments iteration_order and > memory_order, but it seems overdoing it... > Maybe the documentation could just be checked if it is always clear > though. I.e. maybe it does not use "iteration" or "memory" order > consistently (though I somewhat feel it is usually clear that it must be > iteration order, since no numpy function cares about the input memory > order as they will just do a copy if necessary).
I have been using both C and Fortran for 25 or so years. Despite that, I have to sit and think every time I need to know which way the arrays are stored, basically by remembering that in fortran you do (I,J,*) for an assumed-size array. So I *love* the idea of 'Z' and 'N' which I understood immediately. Andrew _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
