On Thu, 2021-05-20 at 13:46 -0400, Robert Kern wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 1:40 PM CJ Carey <perimosocord...@gmail.com>
> wrote:

<snip>

> > If NEP 21 is accepted (
> > https://numpy.org/neps/nep-0021-advanced-indexing.html) this would
> > be
> > even simpler:
> > 
> > out.vindex[:, x] = 1
> > 
> > Was there ever a decision about that NEP? I didn't follow the
> > discussion
> > too closely at the time.
> > 
> 
> IIRC, I think there was broad agreement on the final plan as stated
> in the
> NEP. I suspect, though, that the general appetite for adding to the
> array
> API surface has declined even from its anemic starting point, now
> that deep
> learning frameworks with ndarray-mimicking APIs have taken off.


True, I am not sure on which side we would land now.  Although, NumPy's
advanced indexing is too odd to expect ndarray-mimicking APIs to copy
it.  At least with new attributes you have a chance to define clearly
what should happen.

I personally still have appetite for it.  But expect there will be
enough "small" things to fix-up (improve the NEP, figure out how
subclassing should be done, clean-up the old code) that this is still a
decent sized project.  The old 80-20 problem, I guess...

So, it just never quite reached the motivation/priority threshold for
me since the original push.

Cheers,

Sebastian


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