Re: [Numpy-discussion] Time for beta1 of NumPy 1.0

[Alan I. <ai...@am...>]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Travis Oliphant wrote: 
> I am, however, sympathetic to the arguments for wanting 
> floating-point defaults.   I wanted to change this 
> originally but was convinced to not make such a major 
> change for back-ward compatibility (more on that later). 

Before 1.0, it seems right to go with the best design
and take some short-run grief for it if necessary.

If the right default is float, but extant code will be hurt,
then let float be the default and put the legacy-code fix 
(function redefinition) in the compatability module.

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Alan Isaac