[Python-Dev] Pre-PEP: Allow Empty Subscript List Without Parentheses

[Robert Kern]

Greg Ewing wrote:

> I'm having trouble seeing a real use for a 0D array as
> something distinct from a scalar, as opposed to them
> just being an oddity that happens to arise as a side
> effect of the way Numeric/Numpy are implemented.

This has been rehashed over and over again on numpy-discussion. The upshot is
that numpy no longer creates rank-zero arrays unless if the user really asks for
one. The remaining use cases are documented here:

  http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/wiki/ZeroRankArray

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco