--- Todd Miller <jmiller@[...].edu>  wrote:
>  Two other issues come up trying to implement the "rank-0 experiment":
>  
>  1.  What should be the behavior of subscripting a rank-0 array?
>  
>  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.


> 
>  2.  What's a decent notation for .asScalar()?
>  
>  a.  a[ <subscript_resulting_in_rank0> ][0]                (what numarray 
>  does now)
>  b.  a[ <subscript_resulting_in_rank0> ]()                  (override 
>  __call__)
>  c.  a[ <subscript_resulting_in_rank0> ].asScalar()  
>  
>  Any strong opinions?
>  

Since subscripting a rank-3 array:

  a[1, 2, 3] 

is very much like 

  a[(1, 2, 3)]

The __getitem__ receives the tuple (1, 2, 3) in both cases.  (Try it!)

So that would imply subscripting (dereferencing) a rank-0 array could be:

  a[] could be represented by a[()]

It's just unfortunate that Python doesn't currently recognize the a[] as a
valid syntax.




Cheers,
    -Scott






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