On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Gael Varoquaux apparently wrote:
> We may desagree on what is Right, but the breaks backward
> compatibility, and thus is a breakage and should be given
> a lot of thought.
I agree with this. I am a matrix user, and I have given it
a lot of thought. I have been making this case for a *long*
time. It has come to a head because of the announced desire
to severely constrain API changes moving forward.
As I am best able to understand you abstract view, the right
thing to do would be for matrices to raise an error in
response to a scalar index. However, I deduce, you would
just leave things alone to avoid backward incompatibility.
I weight the future more heavily. We are approaching a last
chance to do things better, and we should seize it.
The right questions looking forward:
- what behavior allows the most generic code?
- what behavior breaks fewest expectations?
- what behavior is most useful?
Cheers,
Alan Isaac
PS I cannot recall: do you use matrices?
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