On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:17 AM, Olivier Delalleau <sh...@keba.be> wrote: > Hehe, I didn't even know there was supposed to be a warning for arrays... Ok. > > But I'm not convinced that re-using the "overflow" category is a good > idea, because to me the overflow is typically associated to the result > of an operation (when it goes beyond the dtype's supported range), > while here the problem is with the unsafe cast an input (even if it > makes no difference for addition, it does for some other ufuncs).
Right, there are two operations: casting the inputs to a common type, and then performing the addition. It's the first operation that rolls over and would trigger a warning/error/whatever, not the second. -n _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
