[Numpy-discussion] Sign of NaN

[Chris Barker]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 12:32 AM, Sebastian Berg <sebastian at sipsolutions.net
> wrote:

> > >> Plus we hope that many use cases for object arrays will soon be
> > >> supplanted by better dtype support, so now may not be the best time to
> > >> invest heavily in making object arrays complicated and powerful.Well,
> what I mean is. A
>


> `Decimal` will probably never know about numpy
> itself. So I was wondering if you should teach numpy the other way
> around about it.
>

indeed -- but the way to do that is to create a Decimal dtype -- if we have
the "better dtype support", then that shouldn't be hard to do.

-CHB


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