Travis E. Oliphant wrote: > Hi everybody, > > In writing some generic code, I've encountered situations where it would > reduce code complexity to allow NumPy scalars to be "indexed" in the > same number of limited ways, that 0-d arrays support. > > For example, 0-d arrays can be indexed with > > * Boolean masks > * Ellipses x[...] and x[..., newaxis] > * Empty tuple x[()] > > I think that numpy scalars should also be indexable in these particular > cases as well (read-only of course, i.e. no setting of the value would > be possible). > > This is an easy change to implement, and I don't think it would cause > any backward compatibility issues. > > Any opinions from the list? > > > Best regards, > > -Travis O.
Travis, You have been getting mostly objections so far; maybe it would help if you gave a simple specific example of how your proposal would simplify code. Eric _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
