[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] Last complaints about NumPy 1.0a5

[Guido van Rossum]

>  What about some kind of hint mechanisms, like "search() vs.
> search(SORTED)" or something more elegant.

Just a general out of context remark: I'm becoming less and less fond
of functions that take optional enum or flag arguments to modify their
behavior.  In practice, 100% of the calls give a constant for the flag
(unless you are writing a wrapper around the function, like an
extension method).

While search(SORTED) looks slightly better than search(1), of we're
going to type that much, I'd much prefer search_sorted().

Just an opinion...

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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