On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 3:58 PM, G Young <gfyoun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I sense that this issue is now becoming more of "randint has become too > complicated" I suppose we could always "add" more functions that present > simpler interfaces, though if you really do want simple, there's always > Python's random library you can use. > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 8:48 PM, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 8:43 PM, G Young <gfyoun...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Josef: I don't think we are making people think more. They're all >> keyword arguments, so if you don't want to think about them, then you leave >> them as the defaults, and everyone is happy. >> >> I believe that Josef has the code's reader in mind, not the code's >> writer. As a reader of other people's code (and I count 6-months-ago-me as >> one such "other people"), I am sure to eventually encounter all of the >> different variants, so I will need to know all of them. >> > I have mostly the users in mind (i.e. me). I like simple patterns where I don't have to stare at a docstring for five minutes to understand it, or pull it up again each time I use it. dtype for storage is different from dtype as distribution parameter. --- aside, since I just read this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11112763 what to avoid. you save a few keystrokes and spend months trying to figure out what's going on. (exaggerated) "*Note* that this convenience feature may lead to undesired behaviour when ..." from R docs Josef > >> -- >> Robert Kern >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NumPy-Discussion mailing list >> NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org >> https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > >
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