[Matrix-SIG] Credit where credit is due.

[Perry Stoll]

Well, just for historical accuracy ;), check out the
thread starting here for more on this topic:

http://www.python.org/pipermail/matrix-sig/1996-January/003421.html


-Perry



--- Travis Oliphant <Oliphant.Travis@mayo.edu> wrote:
> 
> I apologize to Scott Ransom and Michael Haggerty for
> incorrectly citing
> Michael Hudson as originator of the idea for an
> attribute that causes no
> upcasting.  
> 
> I went back and reviewed the discussion on this list
> of June and July last
> year and saw that it was really the conversation
> between Scott Ransom, Tim
> Hochberg, Rick White, and Michael Haggerty that
> produced the idea of a
> typecode attribute to help in the upcasting problem.
>  Their idea is
> essentially what was implemented.  
> 
> I also saw that the disagreement about how to handle
> the case of two
> arrays with this property was also present in the
> discussion :-)
> 
> --Travis
> 
> 
> 
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