[Numpy-discussion] NEP 31 — Context-local and global overrides of the NumPy API

[Ralf Gommers]

On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 12:53 AM Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 11:21 PM Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 2:09 PM Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 2:04 AM Hameer Abbasi <einstein.edison at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > The fact that we're having to design more and more protocols for a lot
> > of very similar things is, to me, an indicator that we do have holistic
> > problems that ought to be solved by a single protocol.
>
> But the reason we've had trouble designing these protocols is that
> they're each different :-). If it was just a matter of copying
> __array_ufunc__ we'd have been done in a few minutes...
>

I don't think that argument is correct. That we now have two very similar
protocols is simply a matter of history and limited developer time. NEP 18
discusses in several places that __array_ufunc__ should be brought in line
with __array_ufunc__, and that we can migrate a function from one protocol
to the other. There's no technical reason other than backwards compat and
dev time why we couldn't use __array_function__ for ufuncs also.

Cheers,
Ralf
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