> > Sure, that's clearly what's going on, but numpy shouldn't let you > silently shoot yourself in the foot like that. Re-using input as > output is a very common operation, and usually supported fine. > Probably we should silently make a copy of any input(s) that overlap > with the output? For high-dimensional dot, buffering temprary > subspaces would still be more memory efficient than anything users > could reasonably accomplish by hand.
Also, from a user point of view it is difficult to sort out which functions currently allow 'out=a' or out=b' since nothing in the 'dot' documentation warned me about such problem. Nicolas _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
