[Numpy-discussion] array, asarray as contiguous and friends

[Sasha]

On 3/23/06, Travis Oliphant <oliphant at ee.byu.edu> wrote:
> Thus, in my mind, the array call should get another flag keyword that
> forces a contiguous result.

Please don't! The fortran flag is bad enough, but has too much history
behind it.  Let's not breed boolean parameters. Sooner or later
someone will use keword arguments positionally and you will end up
guessing what

array([1,2], int8_, 1, 1, 0, 0)

means.