On 2012-05-02, at 8:42 PM, Ian Goodfellow <[email protected]> wrote:

> My personal opinion on this is that scale_C should default to False.
> As a user rather
> than developer of the library, if I tell the model to use some value
> of C, I expect it to
> use that value of C. I don't expect to have to read through all of the
> optional arguments
> to make sure I am not overlooking an "actually do what I told you to
> do" flag somewhere.

+1. Whatever else, having C behave one way in the library and another way in 
virtually every textbook on the planet is a bug. You're left with either 
renaming C to something else and letting that be the clue, or respecting the 
previously established convention.

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