[SciPy-user] complex vector scalar product: wrong implementation

Alan G Isaac aisaac at american.edu
Thu Jan 13 13:59:23 EST 2005


> Robert Kern wrote: 
>> For a lot of users, it is already later, not sooner. A lot of code
>> depends on the current behaviour, and we would break that code by
>> replacing dot with a different implementation.

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, "Vladimir A. Roudnev" apparently wrote:
> Can we say, how many is "a lot"? Is it 10, 100, or 100000? I'm really
> curious.
> Is there any single user in this mail list who would fight to the finish
> for the wrong implementation to save his/her own codes? Developers is a
> different story, I suspect... :)


So far the answer seems to be None.

Perhaps a transition strategy is feasible
while this is explored.  E.g.,
allow 'dot' to take an argument specifying
conjugation.

Alan Isaac






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