Re: [matplotlib-devel] Problem checking if masked arrays are finite in transforms.py

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:

>  Agreed.  If there were a meta-class usage that was crystal-clear after a
> little inspection, and that actually made the code easier to understand and
> maintain, I would consider it.
>
>  I know that when we talked in Kona I was complaining about decorators, but
> they are here to stay, and as long as they are not too tricky they can be
> fine.  The @staticmethod form is an improvement over the non-decorator
> equivalent, an assignment at the bottom of the method.  I would be happy to
> see Mike's commented-out @staticmethod lines uncommented, and the
> corresponding assignments at the bottom of the method deleted, for example.
>
>  Requiring 2.4 would also let us remove the subprocess module--not a big
> deal, but an incremental simplification of the mpl package.

All these sound like good suggestions to me...

JDH