Gael Varoquaux wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:49:50AM -0500, Travis E. Oliphant wrote: > >> As the number of special-case work-arounds grows the more I'm convinced >> the conceptualization is wrong. So, I now believe we should change the >> a[i] for matrices to return a 1-d array. >> > > >> The only down-side I see is that a[i] != a[i,:] for matrices. >> However, matrix(a[i]) == a[i,:], and so I'm not sure there is really a >> problem, there. >> > > I think we have simply replaced one problem by another one. I think this > is a bad route to go. The problem is that I know exactly what the problem we are replacing, but I have no idea only vagueries about the problem we are getting. So, in the short term, it seems like the right thing to do, because we aren't preventing a change to RowVector/ColumnVector in the future.
-Travis _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
