I like the idea, as long as we all remain aware of the irony of having a "log" spacing for a function named "lin"space.
-Joe On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 2:44 PM, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 7:38 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: >> >> Some questions it'd be good to get feedback on: >> >> - any better ideas for naming it than "geomspace"? It's really too bad >> that the 'logspace' name is already taken. > > geomspace() is a perfectly cromulent name, IMO. > >> - I guess the alternative interface might be something like >> >> np.linspace(start, stop, steps, spacing="log") >> >> what do people think? > > In a new function not named `linspace()`, I think that might be fine. I do > occasionally want to swap between linear and logarithmic/geometric spacing > based on a parameter, so this doesn't violate the van Rossum Rule of > Function Signatures. > > -- > 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