[MATRIX-SIG] reverse of take?

[Konrad Hinsen]

> Me too. I think a better approach to adding flavors/bells/whistles to
> indexing is by adding a default argument to the index, as in
> 
>     a[i, j, k, hint=flavor_woo_woo_17]

That's unfortunately impossible with the current Python syntax. An index
expression must consist of standard expressions or slices separated by
commas. No keyword arguments.

Aaron's comment on this:

> >     a[i, j, k, hint=flavor_woo_woo_17]
> 
> I'm reeling about not following this discussion, but I suspect
> the best approach is for Jim H. to "just do it".  I personally
> begin to think that excess overloading of indexing is not
> advisable, possibly confusing.  I vote for "take()" as is with dual

Until now we haven't discussed much more overloading - just the
addition of sequence types (including arrays) as indices! And I think
this kind of operation should be a form of indexing simply because
people coming from other array languages *expect* it to be.
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