I like the idea, as long as we all remain aware of the irony of having a "log" spacing for a function named "lin"space. -Joe On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 2:44 PM, Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 7:38 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs@pobox.com> wrote:
Some questions it'd be good to get feedback on:
- any better ideas for naming it than "geomspace"? It's really too bad that the 'logspace' name is already taken.
geomspace() is a perfectly cromulent name, IMO.
- I guess the alternative interface might be something like
np.linspace(start, stop, steps, spacing="log")
what do people think?
In a new function not named `linspace()`, I think that might be fine. I do occasionally want to swap between linear and logarithmic/geometric spacing based on a parameter, so this doesn't violate the van Rossum Rule of Function Signatures.
-- Robert Kern
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