On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Christopher Barker <[email protected]>wrote:
> Mark Wiebe wrote: > > 1) NA vs IGNORE and bitpattern vs mask are completely independent. Any > > combination of NA as bitpattern, NA as mask, IGNORE as bitpattern, and > > IGNORE as mask are reasonable. > > Is this really true? if you use a bitpattern for IGNORE, haven't you > just lost the ability to get the original value back if you want to stop > ignoring it? Maybe that's not inherent to what an IGNORE means, but it > seems pretty key to me. > What do you think of renaming IGNORE to SKIP? -Mark > > -Chris > > > > > > > > > -- > Christopher Barker, Ph.D. > Oceanographer > > Emergency Response Division > NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice > 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax > Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception > > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >
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