Is it really better to have `permute` and `permuted` than to add a keyword? (Note that these are actually still ambiguous, except by convention.)
Btw, two separate issues seem to be running side by side. i. should in-place operations return their result? ii. how can we signal that an operation is inplace? I expect NumPy to do inplace operations when feasible, so maybe they could take an `out` keyword with a None default. Possibly recognize `out=True` as asking for the original array object to be returned (mutated); `out='copy'` as asking for a copy to be created, operated upon, and returned; and `out=a` to ask for array `a` to be used for the output (without changing the original object, and with a return value of None). Alan Isaac _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
