On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 03:20:02PM -0400, Alan G Isaac wrote: > On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Gael Varoquaux apparently wrote: > > x[i, :]*A*x[:, i] > > I find this cleaner, because more explicit, than x[i]*A*x[:, i].
> >> a. would e.g. ``x[i:i+1,:]`` > > No way. > So *if* ``x[0]`` is going to be 1d to fix the many anomalies that > have surfaced, then you would still want ``x[0]==x[0,:]``, > but to have those be 1d and have ``x[i, :]*A*x[:, i]`` work > would require (oriented) "vector" objects, so you would want > those. > Is that a fair summary of your view? That an extremely good summary of my views. Better than I could have formulated it. Thank you. Given this good short paragraph summing up the problem, as I see it, this is why I think the only correct option is the oriented 1D objects. The second best option is not to change anything in order not to break backward compatibility. Gaël _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
