[Numpy-discussion] Re: Precision changes to sin/cos in the next release?

2023-05-31 Thread Allan, Daniel via NumPy-Discussion
Thanks for your work on this, Sebastian. I think there is a benefit for new users and learners to have visually obviously-correct results for the identities. The SciPy Developer's Guide [1] several of us worked on last week uses Snell's Law as a teaching example, and it would now give some resu

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Proposal to accept NEP-18, __array_function__ protocol

2018-08-29 Thread Allan, Daniel
> Well, I guess I'll be proving Nathaniel right: I would *definitely* start > using __array_function__ in astropy - not being able to concatenate Quantity > and other instances which use it has been a long-standing pain. That's fair enough, but I think Matt's point still stands. Any given projec

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Hoop jumping, and other sports

2018-02-07 Thread Allan, Daniel
I think that makes sense. Incidentally, I had imitated numpy's abbreviated prefixes on various other projects until it was recently pointed out to me that abbreviations, especially more cryptic ones like "ENH", "REF", and "MNT", are a particularly tricky "hoop" to jump through for non-native spe