[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] Re: empty array

[Konrad HINSEN]

> I made the obvious patches to get this to work and noticed that
> array([]) creates an empty array of characters (This is the lowest
> type in the type hierarchy).  This is probably not what people want in
> the general case.  Any suggestions on how to deal with the type of an
> empty array?

Of course explicit type specifications should work as expected.
For the default type, I am surprised that "character" is
in the hierarchy at all. Character arrays behave differently
and are not coerced to number arrays. They should therefore
be a separate category. The default type for empty arrays
would then be "integer", which is fine.

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