[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] Some thoughts on default axes.

[tim@lassi.ece.uiuc.edu]

Here some more random naming conventions for your amusement:

Capitalize structural ops:
	Concatenate, Reduce, Take, Repeat, ...
	sort, argsort, fft, argmax, ...
	
	"Simple, but looks like a Class constructor..."

Use 'of' with nonstructural ops (as "the argsort of x"):
	concatenate, reduce, take, repeat, ...
	sort_of, argsort_of, fft_of, argmax_of, ...
	
	"Weird"

Turn nonstructural operations into adjectives, leave structural ones as verbs:
	concatenate, reduce, take, repeat, ...
	sorted, argsorted, ffted, argmaxed, ...

	"Weirder!"

Spell nonstructural operations backwards:
	concatenate, reduce, take, repeat, ...
	tors, torsgra, tff, xamgra, ...

	"Very weird! Impossible to spell. Fails for palindromes."



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| tim@lassi.ece.uiuc.edu              University of Illinois         |
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