On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Robert Kern wrote: > People have been giving you reasons, over and over again. > You are simply refusing to listen to them.
Exploring whether the reasoning is adequate is not the same as refusing to listen. I do not presume my view is correct. > You have a use case for arrays being the iterates. You >are presuming that the only argument that can beat that is >another use case for matrix objects being the iterates. >This is not true; there are other principles at work. Put slightly differently: given the surprising passion of the attacks at the suggestion that perhaps iteration over a matrix might more consistently yield arrays, I presumed there must be *many* instances in which it was obviously desirable that such iteration should yield matrices. So I asked to see some. In the context of this discussion, I found the (lack of) responses very interesting. Even in your thoughtful response it proved irrelevant rather than important for iteration over matrices to yield matrices. I understand that some people claim that a general principle of consistency is involved. I have not been able to understand this particular design decision as a matter of consistency, and I have tried to say why. However I am just a user (and supporter) of numpy, and as indicated in other posts, I make no pretense of deep insight into the design decisions. In this case, I simply wanted to open a discussion of a design decision, not win an "argument". Anyway, I understand that I am being perceived as bull-headed here, so I'll let this go. Thanks for your attempt to help me see the virtues of the current design. Cheers, Alan Isaac _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
