On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Matthew Brett wrote:
> In any case, can anyone remember the original use-cases well enough to
> record them for future decision making?
Heh. Everything new is old again. Here's a discussion from 2002 which
quotes the rationale:
http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/nu
2013/1/4 Nathaniel Smith :
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Matthew Brett
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Reading the discussion on the scalar casting rule change I realized I
>> was hazy on the use-cases that led to the rule that scalars cast
>> differently from arrays.
>>
>> My impression was that the
On 01/04/2013 02:46 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Matthew Brett
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Reading the discussion on the scalar casting rule change I realized I
>> was hazy on the use-cases that led to the rule that scalars cast
>> differently from arrays.
>>
>> My impr
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Matthew Brett wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Reading the discussion on the scalar casting rule change I realized I
> was hazy on the use-cases that led to the rule that scalars cast
> differently from arrays.
>
> My impression was that the primary use-case was for lower-precisio
Hi,
Reading the discussion on the scalar casting rule change I realized I
was hazy on the use-cases that led to the rule that scalars cast
differently from arrays.
My impression was that the primary use-case was for lower-precision
floats. That is, when you have a large float32 arr, you do not wa
