On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 05:25:20PM -0600, Charles R Harris wrote: > Well, doc tests are just a losing proposition, no one should be using them > for writing tests. It's not like this is a new discovery, doc tests have > been known to be unstable for years.
Untested documentation is broken in my experience. This is why I do rely a lot on doctests. > As to numpy being a settled project, I beg to differ. Without moving > forward and routine maintenance numpy will quickly bitrot. I think it > would only take a year or two before the decay began to show. I agree; it's a question of finding tradeoff. It is hard to support different versions of numpy because of it's evolution, but we do like it's evolution, but that's what makes it better. However, sometimes doing a bit of compromises on changes that are cosmetic for the old farts like Matthew and me who have legacy codebases to support is appreciated. Gaël _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
