[Numpy-discussion] Matlab page on scipy wiki

[Sasha]

I would be against any meaningful name because it will look too much
like a function and people will be trying to use (...) instead of
[...] with it.  A single-letter identifier will look more like syntax
and the concatenator is really just a clever way to take advantage of
Python syntax that recognizes slices inside [].  Novices may just
think that something like c[1:3,9:20]
is an array literal like r"xyz" for raw strings (another argument against "r"!).

On 2/10/06, Eric Firing <efiring at hawaii.edu> wrote:
> Travis Oliphant wrote:
> > Christopher Barker wrote:
> >
> >> Colin J. Williams wrote:
> >>
> >>>> numpy.r_[1,0,range(1,5),0,1]
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>> This seems to be a neat idea but not in the usual Python style.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Exactly. couldn't it at least get a meaningful, but short, name?
> >
> >
> > It is meaningful :-)  r_ means row concatenation...  (but, it has taken
> > on more functionality than that).  What name do you suggest?
>
> "cat"?  "rcat"? "catr"?  "catter"?
>
> Eric
>
>
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