On 09/07/2006, at 12:04 AM, Robert Kern wrote: > Ed Schofield wrote: >> Last week's discussion on rand() and randn() seemed to indicate a >> sentiment that they ought to take tuples for consistency with ones, >> zeros, eye, identity, and empty -- that, although they are supposed >> to be convenience functions, they are inconvenient precisely because >> of their inconsistency with these other functions. This issue has >> been raised many times over the past several months. >> >> Travis made a change in r2572 to allow tuples as arguments, then took >> it out again a few hours later, apparently unsure about whether this >> was a good idea. >> >> I'd like to call for a vote on what people would prefer, and then ask >> Travis to make a final pronouncement before the feature freeze. > > I would like to ask about the purpose of calling for a vote, here. > What > authority do you intend the result to have? If you are just asking > for a straw > poll of opinions from the list to inform Travis' decision, do you > think that he > hasn't read the previous discussions? Are previous non-participants > being drawn > out of the woodwork? ...
No authority at all -- it's just a straw poll. My intention is merely to ascertain whether there's indeed a groundswell of public opinion for this change among NumPy's users, as is my suspicion. Previous non-participants are indeed coming out of the woodwork. The reason I've listed only one alternative to the status quo is that this is a simple, concrete proposal that has bubbled up several times from the discussion, which may have broad enough support to tip Travis's decision. I know that you, Robert, disagree with the proposal and have put forward an alternative. Fair enough, but let's now hear what others have to say. -- Ed ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/numpy-discussion
