How easy is it to replicate the old code using your new code?

Aaron Meurer

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Matthew Rocklin <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm rewriting the statistics module and would like to take over some of the
> names in the previous version. I'm wondering who would mind or what our
> policy is on backwards compatibility.
> Previously there was a distributions.py file with two Distribution objects,
> Normal and Uniform. I'd like to take over these two words in the namespace
> to create my own Normal and Uniform random variable objects. This would
> break anyone's code who uses them currently. Does anyone use them currently?
> The way I see it there are two decent options
> 1) Take over these names, delete the old distributions.py file (all old
> functionality exists in the new version, just with new syntax)
> 2) Leave distributions.py intact, use names like NormalRV and ExponentialRV
> for all of my random variable creation functions in my code.
> -Matt
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