[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] Two weeks' experience

[James Hugunin]

As the only person here with several months of experience writing
pratical code, I'd like to comment on a few of Konrad's points.

1) You can in fact write greater(a, b) already, today, using the
current package.  In fact, I personally do this all this time.  Once
again, I wish that people would at least try things before complaining
that they can't be done.

2) reshape does clearly need work, no arguments here

3) fromFunction was only written to prove to Tom Schwaller that it
could be done.  It is in fact very useful in it's current form.  I
have made every efort to avoid having to loop over python functions in
the array code as this is ridiculously slow.  If you want these
functions they can always be easily written in python.

I really feel that once this gets released beyond this list it's going
to get difficult to make the kinds of major changes that Konrad is
advocating, so I'm reluctant to go forward on a public alpha release
until these issues are at least somewhat resolved.

-Jim

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