[Numpy-discussion] metadata and metabehavior for arrays (for scipy.base or Numeric3)

[konrad.hinsen at laposte.net]

On Apr 7, 2005, at 11:25, Sebastien.deMentendeHorne at electrabel.com 
wrote:

> Why not have the ability to ask the name of an ufunc to be able to 
> dispatch on it ?

That's already possible.

> What about :
>
> object.__unary__(cos, mode = "reduce")
> object.__binary__(cos, other, mode = "reduce")

What does "reduce" mode mean for cos?
What does a binary ufunc in reduce mode do with its second argument?

> However, for binary operations, how it the call dispatched if one of 
> the operand is of a type while the other is another type ? This 
> problem is related to multimethods 
> http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=101605

No need to be innovative: Python always dispatches on the first 
argument, and everybody is familiar with that approach even though it 
isn't perfect. If Python 3000 has multimethods, we can still adapt.

Konrad.
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