On Jun 4, 2016 7:23 PM, "Charles R Harris" <charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote: > [...] > We could always try the float option and see what breaks, but I expect there is a fair amount of code using small exponents like 2 or 3 where it is expected that the result is still integer. I would like more input from users than we have seen so far...
Just to highlight this, if anyone wants to strengthen the argument for switching to float then this is something you can literally do: tweak a local checkout of numpy to return float from int**int and array-of-int**array-of-int, and then try running the test suites of projects like scikit-learn, astropy, nipy, scikit-image, ... (The reason I'm phrasing this as something that people who like the float idea should do is that generally when proposing a risky compatibility-breaking change, the onus is on the ones proposing it to demonstrate that the risk is ok.) -n
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