On 12/10/18, Ralf Gommers wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 2:00 PM Alan Isaac wrote:
>
>> I believe this was proposed in the past to little enthusiasm,
>> with the response, "you're using a library; learn its functions".
>>
>
> Not only that, NumPy and the core libraries around it are the standard
On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 8:26 AM Alan Isaac wrote:
> On 12/10/2018 11:20 AM, Ralf Gommers wrote:
> > there is nothing wrong with the current API
>
> Just to be clear: you completely reject the past
> cautions on this list against creating APIs
> with flag parameters. Is that correct?
>
> Or is "n
On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 8:27 AM Alan Isaac wrote:
> On 12/10/2018 11:20 AM, Ralf Gommers wrote:
> > there is nothing wrong with the current API
>
> Just to be clear: you completely reject the past
> cautions on this list against creating APIs
> with flag parameters. Is that correct?
>
There's n
I think the current random infrastructure is mostly considered frozen
anyway, even for bugfixes, given the pending NEP to produce a new random
infrastructure and the commitment therein to guarantee that old random
streams behave the same way given their extensive use in testing and so on.
Maybe the
On 12/10/2018 11:20 AM, Ralf Gommers wrote:
there is nothing wrong with the current API
Just to be clear: you completely reject the past
cautions on this list against creating APIs
with flag parameters. Is that correct?
Or is "nothing wrong" just a narrow approval in
this particular case?
Al
On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 1:55 PM Charles R Harris
wrote:
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> On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 10:24 PM Ralf Gommers
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> A little while ago I wrote a blog post about the history of us
>> constructing the roadmap we currently have:
>> https://rgommers.github.io/2018/10/the-making-of-
On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 2:00 PM Alan Isaac wrote:
> I believe this was proposed in the past to little enthusiasm,
> with the response, "you're using a library; learn its functions".
>
Not only that, NumPy and the core libraries around it are the standard for
numerical/statistical computing. If co