Re: [Visualpython-users] Re: Visualpython-users digest, Vol 1 #384 - 6 msgs

[Bruce S. <bas...@un...>]

Arthur mentioned the impending demise of Numeric, and its replacement by
Numarray. In June I got this advice from Dave Scherer about what will be
involved in updating Visual when the time comes:

> I just noticed that the Numeric folk intend to replace
> Numeric with a new
> module which is mostly compatible with Numeric except for having a
> completely different interface to C. This sounds suspiciously
> like we might
> have a very big task looming in the not entirely distant future?

I wouldn't expect it to be *too* horrible, but it will take some effort.
Searching cvisual for "Array" (the CXX wrapper class for numeric arrays)
gives 42 hits in arrprim, convex, curve, faceset, and pvector.  This is
not a very scientific check but it suggests that the damage would be
fairly localized.