Sept. 2, 2003
10:44 p.m.
On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 15:20, Fernando Perez wrote:
Todd Miller wrote:
I thought about this a lot yesterday and today talked it over with Perry. There are several ways to fix the problem with mean() and sum(), and I'm hoping that you and the rest of the community will help sort them out.
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Just a thought: why not make the upcasting an optional parameter?
<snip> That sounds like a great idea. Simple, but doesn't throw out all storage control.
in most cases where you encapsulate low level details in a high level abstraction, there end up being situations where the details poke through the abstraction and cause you grief.
Thanks for these kind words. -- Todd Miller <jmiller@stsci.edu>