April 10, 2006
1:49 p.m.
Travis Oliphant wrote:
Pierre GM wrote:
decide to get rid of "putmask".
"putmask" really seems overkill indeed. I wouldn't miss it.
I'm not opposed to getting rid of putmask either. Several of the newer methods are open for discussion before 1.0. I'd have to check to be sure, but .take and .put are not entirely replaced by fancy-indexing. Also, fancy indexing has enough overhead that a method doing exactly what you want is faster.
I'm curious, what use cases does fancy indexing not handle that take works for? Not counting speed issues. Regards, -tim