On 7/6/11 11:57 AM, Mark Wiebe wrote: > On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Christopher Barker
> 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? This isn't a semantics issue -- IGNORE is fine. What I'm getting at is that we need a word (and code) for: "ignore for now, but I might want to use it later" - 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
