[Numpy-discussion] Release of NumPy

[Stéfan van der Walt]

On 17/04/2008, Alan G Isaac <aisaac at american.edu> wrote:
>  Stefan's scores well too, so why do I prefer mine?
>  As I said, I am not sure mine is better, but I think it is,
>  an I can offer some reasons to prefer it.  Two are:
>
>         - it is simpler
>         - it retains more ndarray behavior

That is simply not true.  The patch I sent provides everything you
asked for *without* breaking *any* ndarray behaviour, whereas your
suggestion breaks x[0] == x[0,:].

Stéfan