On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote:

> Going through np.mat also fails on the meta-goal, which is to remove
> reasons for people to prefer np.matrix to np.ndarray, so that eventually we
> can deprecate the former without harm.
>
> As far as this goal goes, it's all very well for some of us to say that
> users should toughen up or whatever, but it's useless: they'll just ignore
> you and use np.mat because it's easier. And then we have even more of a
> mess to clean up later.
>

so maybe don't do anything new, and np.mat can produce an array at some
point in the future when np.matrix is deprecated....

-CHB

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