On 07/06/2011 07:51 PM, Chris Barker wrote: > 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"
HIDE? That implies there is still something there, potentially recoverable. Eric > > - Chris > > > > _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
