[Matrix-SIG] thoughts about the future

[skaller]

"Paul F. Dubois" wrote:
> 
> There are two separate concepts and NumPy attempts to do both of them:
> 
> 1. Provide an "array" object that can store a large number of items of one
> type in as small a space as possible.
> 
> 2. Provide for rapid operations and fancy subscripting and shapes, etc.

	Probably, this is right, but Python _already_ provides
an array module for linear arrays of a particular type. 

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