I think this gives more reason to not add a stacked kwarg to plot. You
would need to add it to the log variants as well.

Nic

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote:
> On 2012/08/23 2:54 PM, Fernando Perez wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote:
>>> OK, here are mine: I oppose overloading plot with a "stacked" kwarg and
>>> functionality.  It is complicated enough as it is.  I don't see any
>>> problem with having "stackplot" and hist(..., stacked=True).  They are
>>> just not all that similar.  Nor are "plot" and "stackplot" so very
>>> similar.  But stacked and non-stacked histograms *are* very similar, so
>>> using the kwarg to turn on stacking there makes sense.
>>
>> Quick q: how would things like log plots be handles for the stacked
>> case?  Log plots are really just axis scale choices on a normal plot,
>> but for historical reasons they happen to be implemented via a bunch
>> of different functions.  But for that reason, any interface changes
>> that make sense for plot pretty should also apply to the *log*
>> functions, no?
>
> I'm not sure I understand what you are getting at, but I don't think
> there should be any interface changes for plot or for their log variants.
>
> Eric
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> f
>>
>
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