13 Sep
2002
13 Sep
'02
9:46 p.m.
Hi Perry,
I like Travis's proposal the best of those I've seen so far, but I don't recall the details of Eric's problem. Could you refresh us as to the basics of it?.
-tim
Rather than put keystrokes on Eric's fingertips :-) I think it would be best if he (or Paul Dubois, who had similar concerns) gave some examples. But I believe it concerned fairly generic Numeric routines that had expressions that might or might not result in scalars. Testing for both cases resulted in extra code (Paul said that MA had to deal with this a lot) and that having to deal with this made the code error prone. But I'd rather they explained it since they have very specific experience with this issue. Perhaps they can give a couple common examples. Perry