[Numpy-discussion] Time for beta1 of NumPy 1.0 (original) (raw)

Alan Isaac aisaac at american.edu
Fri Jun 30 09:50:52 EDT 2006

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Travis Oliphant wrote:

I am, however, sympathetic to the arguments for wanting floating-point defaults. I wanted to change this originally but was convinced to not make such a major change for back-ward compatibility (more on that later).

Before 1.0, it seems right to go with the best design and take some short-run grief for it if necessary.

If the right default is float, but extant code will be hurt, then let float be the default and put the legacy-code fix (function redefinition) in the compatability module.

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Alan Isaac

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