[Numpy-discussion] how to name "contagious" keyword in np.ma.convolve

[Sebastian Berg]

On Fr, 2016-10-14 at 13:00 -0400, Allan Haldane wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Eric Wieser has a PR which defines new functions np.ma.correlate and
> np.ma.convolve:
> 
> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/7922
> 
> We're deciding how to name the keyword arg which determines whether
> masked elements are "propagated" in the convolution sums. Currently
> we
> are leaning towards calling it "contagious", with default of True:
> 
>         def convolve(a, v, mode='full', contagious=True):
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 

Sounds a bit overly odd to me to be honest. Just brain storming, you
could think/name it the other way around maybe? Should the masked
values be considered as zero/ignored?

- Sebastian


> Cheers,
> Allan
> 
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