[Numpy-discussion] Release of SciPy Core 0.4 (Beta)

[Stephen Walton]

Tim Churches wrote:

>That would eb a most welcome development. If you are in the mood for
>some minor extensions to MA (you probably aren't, but just on the
>off-chance...), then support for multiple masking values would be great.
>  
>
This sounds like an overly complicated addition to MA.  If I may be so 
bold, it seems to me that what you might want is your own object which 
maintains parallel arrays of values and "mask reasons," if you will, and 
generates a mask array accordingly