Anne Archibald wrote: > Numpy provides ufuncs as general powerful tools for operating on > matrices. More can be added relatively easily, they provide not just > the basic "apply" operation but also "outer" and others. Adding > another way to accomplish the same operation just adds bulk to numpy.
Maybe so, but if it were up to me, I'd have just the methods, and not the functions -- I like namespaces and OO design. I've always thought it was a spurious argument that these kinds of functions can operate on things that aren't numpy arrays -- it's true, but they all return arrays, to it's not like they really are universal. > Surely you don't want to see myarray.arctan()? This was debated a fair bit on this list when the other methods were added. Personally, I like functions, rather than methods for things that "feel" like standard math -- trig functions, etc. I guess abs() kind of falls on the line. All I know is that I expected abs() to be a method this time. -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
