[Numpy-discussion] using the same vocabulary for missing value ideas

[Eric Firing]

On 07/06/2011 07:51 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
> On 7/6/11 11:57 AM, Mark Wiebe wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Christopher Barker
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>>      Is this really true? if you use a bitpattern for IGNORE, haven't you
>>      just lost the ability to get the original value back if you want to stop
>>      ignoring it? Maybe that's not inherent to what an IGNORE means, but it
>>      seems pretty key to me.
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>> What do you think of renaming IGNORE to SKIP?
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> This isn't a semantics issue -- IGNORE is fine.
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> What I'm getting at is that we need a word (and code) for:
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> "ignore for now, but I might want to use it later"

HIDE?  That implies there is still something there, potentially recoverable.

Eric

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