On Wed, 02 Aug 2006, Sebastian Haase apparently wrote:
> Recently someone (Torgil Svensson) here suggested to unify
> the default argument between a method and a function
> - I think the discussion was about numpy.var and it's
> "axis" argument. I would be a clear +1 on unifying these
> and
Travis Oliphant wrote:
> Torgil Svensson wrote:
>
>>> They are supposed to have different defaults because the functional
>>> forms are largely for backward compatibility where axis=0 was the default.
>>>
>>> -Travis
>>>
>>>
>> Isn't backwards compatibility what "oldnumeric" is for?
>>
>>
>>
> What do people think? Is it worth it? This could be a coding-sprint
> effort at SciPy.
>
>
> -Travis
Sounds like a good idea. This should make old code work while not
imposing unneccessary restrictions on numpy due to backward
compatibility.
//Torgil
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 06:21:49PM -0600, Travis Oliphant wrote:
> I'm wondering about whether or not some additional effort should be
> placed in numpy.oldnumeric so that replacing Numeric with
> numpy.oldnumeric actually gives no compatibility issues (i.e. the only
> thing you have to change i
