[SciPy-dev] Question about 64-bit integers being cast to double precision

[Travis Oliphant]

> I kind of like it too. I'm not to worried about the special usage case 
> because controlling types in python is itself a special usage. I guess 
> another question is why the indexing capability was originally added.

I'm not sure what you mean.   Perhaps  my wording was confusing.  There 
is currently no indexing capability of ufunc objects.  But, because 
ufuncs are Python types, we could add indexing capability to accomodate 
a use such as this one. 

Most likely the use case would return a special ufunc object that would 
handle casting differently then the default.

-Travis