Matthew Brett writes:
I'm afraid I find this whole thread very unpleasant.
I have the odd impression of being back at high school. Some of the big kids are pushing me around and then the other kids join in.
It didn't have to be this way.
Someone could have replied like this to Nathaniel:
"Oh - yes - I'm sorry - we actually had the discussion on the pull request. Looking back, I see that we didn't flag this up on the mailing list and maybe we should have. Thanks for pointing that out. Maybe we could start another discussion of the API in view of the changes that have gone in".
But that didn't happen.
Well, I really thought that all the interested parties would take a look at [1]. While it's true that the pull requests are not obvious if you're not using the functionalities of the github web (or unless announced in this list), I think that Mark's announcement was precisely directed at having a new round of discussions after having some code to play around with and see how intuitive or counter-intuitive the implemented concepts could be. [1] http://old.nabble.com/NA-masks-for-NumPy-are-ready-to-test-td32291024.html Lluis -- "And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer." -- The Princess of Pure Reason, as told by Norton Juster in The Phantom Tollbooth