_Original ticket http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1035 on 2009-03-03 by @cournape, assigned to @cournape._ This is a meta issue: Extensive discussions on the ML: http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2008-September/037413.html Also some other issues: #1518, #1484, #1307, #1392,