[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] More naming/module issues
David Ascher
da@maigret.cog.brown.edu
Fri, 6 Sep 1996 11:43:22 -0400 (EDT)
> The names selected for modules,classes, and functions should be
> spelled out in full for a general package called Numeric.
>
> Numeric.LinearAlgebra
> Numeric.FourierTransform
> Numeric.RandomNumbers
>
> I dropped the term Fast from FourierTransform because it seems obvious
> that you would want to do it fast and I don't recall ever hearing
> about anyone using something other than an FFT. The nature of the
> algorithm used could be incorporated into a docstring, rather than
> encoded in the name.
I agree with the package idea, but I think that Konrad's point about
signal processing is good as well.
Numeric.SignalProcessing instead of Numeric.FourierTransform.
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