[Numpy-discussion] Request for clarification from Travis

[Travis E. Oliphant]

> The problem is that numpy has a *bug*. I am trying to fix it and I 
> want your help figuring out how to do so while preserving the behavior 
> you had in mind. So if you could point out specific cases you were 
> thinking of it would help me with this.
This is a hack to support matrices and other subclasses of ndarray like 
masked arrays.

-Travis