On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Craig Citro wrote:

>
>>> Thoughts?
>>
>> I vote for fast.
>>
>
> I also vote for fast -- but couldn't there be a flag for the slow
> option? Maybe "consistent=True" or something, in case someone really
> wants it? I could at least imagine a case where someone might care, in
> which case we might as well have the code there, since you've already
> written it ...

An example where this matters is if one has a dictionary where the 
matrices are keys. Thus if one keyed on sparse matrices, and tried to look 
up based on a dense matrix, one would get a key error.

I vote for both (if possible...).

- Robert


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