On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 10:55 PM Eric Wieser <wieser.eric+nu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Slicing is a lot more important than some keyword. And design-wise, > filling the numpy namespace with singletons for keyword to other things in > that same namespace just makes no sense to me. > > At least from the perspective of discoverability, you could argue that > string constants form a namespace of their won, and so growing the “string” > namespace is not inherently better than growing any other. > I don't really think those are valid arguments. Strings are not a namespace, and if you want to make the analogy then it's at best a namespace within the functions/methods that the strings apply to. Discoverability: what is valid input for a keyword is discovered pretty much exclusively by reading the docstring or html doc page of the function, and not the docstring of some random object in the numpy namespace. Ralf
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