On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Pauli Virtanen <p...@iki.fi> wrote: > 11.05.2012 17:54, Frédéric Bastien kirjoitti: > > In Theano we use a view, but that is not relevant as it is the > > compiler that tell what is inplace. So this is invisible to the user. > > > > What about a parameter to diagonal() that default to return a view not > > writable as you said. The user can then choose what it want and this > > don't break the inferface. > [clip] > > Agreed, it seems this is the appropriate way to go on here > `diagonal(copy=True)`. A more obscure alternative would be to add a > separate method that returns a view. >
This looks like the best way to deal with it, yes. Cheers, Mark > > I don't think changing the default behavior in a later release is a good > idea. It's a sort of an API wart, but IMHO better that than subtle code > breakage. > > Pauli > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >
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