Deepcopying numeric array
Johann Hibschman
johann at physics.berkeley.edu
Thu Aug 19 00:50:33 EDT 1999
Greg Ewing writes:
> Stuart Reynolds wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know why the Numeric arrays can't be deepcopied? Is it just
>> an omission?
> Not only that, but I just found out a few minutes
> ago that they're un-comparable and un-hashable!
> Is there any good reason for these restrictions?
> Are they on hold awaiting Rich Comparisons or
> something?
Well, they're mutable, so you can't use them as hash keys anyway, and,
yes, comparisons are Broken By Design since they can't "do the right
thing."
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