[Numpy-discussion] coercion of arrays

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Hi,

I was looking at the coercion of arrays in the new numarray. The following is 
not intuitive to me:

>>> a = array(1, Int8)
>>> b = array(1, UInt16)
>>> c = a + b
>>> c.type()
UInt16

Should the result not be a signed integer type?

Also the following result is strange to me:

>>> a = array(1, Float64)
>>> b = array(1, Complex32)
>>> c = a + b
>>> c.type()
Complex32

Complex64 would seem to be the more apropiate type here for the result.

Could somebody comment if these are bugs or not?

Cheers, Peter

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