3) Facility for memory-mapped dataspace in arrays.
I'd really like to have that...
4) Slices become copies with the addition of methods for current strict referencing behavior.
This will break a lot of code, and in a way that will be difficult to debug. In fact, this is the only point you mention which would be reason enough for me not to use your modified version; going through all of my code to check what effect this might have sounds like a nightmare. I see the point of having a copying version as well, but why not implement the copying behaviour as methods and leave indexing as it is?
5) Handling of sliceobjects which consist of sequences of indices (so that setting and getting elements of arrays using their index is possible).
Sounds good as well...
6) Rank-0 arrays will not be autoconverted to Python scalars, but will still behave as Python scalars whenever Python allows general scalar-like objects in it's operations. Methods will allow the user-controlled conversion to the Python scalars.
I suspect that full behaviour-compatibility with scalars is impossible, but I am willing to be proven wrong. For example, Python scalars are immutable, arrays aren't. This also means that rank-0 arrays can't be used as keys in dictionaries. How do you plan to implement mixed arithmetic with scalars? If the return value is a rank-0 array, then a single library returning a rank-0 array somewhere could mess up a program well enough that debugging becomes a nightmare.
7) Addition of attributes so that different users can configure aspects of the math behavior, to their hearts content.
You mean global attributes? That could be the end of universally usable library modules, supposing that people actually use them.
If their is anyone interested in helping in this "unofficial branch work" let me know and we'll see about setting up someplace to work. Be
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