[SciPy-dev] draft: NumPy User Guide introduction

[Stéfan van der Walt]

2009/8/20 David Goldsmith <d_l_goldsmith at yahoo.com>:
>> > of arr.* methods (maybe others differ with me on this
>> point?).
>>
>> From an editor's perspective, I would be neutral. The
>> author of an
>> example should use whatever they feel gets their point
>> across best.
>> Editors should leave that choice alone.
>>
>
> However, I'm curious to hear Stefan's reasons/reasoning?

I guess I should have said "others *will* differ with me on this point" :-)

I like the idea of an ndarray being a concise description of bytes in
memory.  At the moment, we have a couple of "special" methods attached
to it, but we could just as well have added fewer or more, and
personally I'd have preferred none.

Regards
Stéfan