[Numpy-discussion] the path forward

[Bill Spotz]

On Apr 29, 2008, at 6:01 PM, Keith Goodman wrote:

> I hope that changing x[0,:] is considered a major change since it will
> break most any package based on matrices (mine). And so I hope that
> such a change wouldn't show up, if at all, until 2.0.

The only code that should break would be indexing the extracted row/ 
column with two indexes.  Multiplication with the extracted row/column  
would still work as expected (and that sounded to me like what the  
application typically was . . . maybe I'm wrong).

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