[Numpy-discussion] Zeros in strides

[Travis Oliphant]

Sasha wrote:

>Sure.  I've started working on a "proof of concept" patch and will post it soon.
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Great. 

>>I'm concerned that your proposal has too many potential pitfalls.  At
>>least you haven't addressed them sufficiently.   My current inclination
>>is to simply disallow setting the strides attribute now that the
>>misaligned segments of code have been tested.
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>That would be an unfortunate result of my post :-(  I would suggest
>just to disallow zero strides in PyArray_CheckStrides until I can
>convince you that they are not that dangerous.
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Inclinations to... and actual plans to... are quite different things 
:-)  So, I'm waiting and seeing.  You may be on to something.  Let's see 
what others think and what you really have in mind.

-Travis