[Numpy-discussion] rank-0 arrays

[Konrad Hinsen]

Scott Gilbert <xscottg at yahoo.com> writes:

> > a.  Return the scalar value                         (what numarray does 
> > now.  seems inconsistent)
> 
> If you think of it as "dereferencing" instead of "indexing", I think this
> is most consistent.  It takes 3 elements to dereference a rank-3 array, so
> it should take 0 elements to dereference a rank-0 array.

That would be fine with me, but empty index brackets raise a
SyntaxError in Python.

Konrad.
-- 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Konrad Hinsen                            | E-Mail: hinsen at cnrs-orleans.fr
Centre de Biophysique Moleculaire (CNRS) | Tel.: +33-2.38.25.56.24
Rue Charles Sadron                       | Fax:  +33-2.38.63.15.17
45071 Orleans Cedex 2                    | Deutsch/Esperanto/English/
France                                   | Nederlands/Francais
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------