ndigits: make base and pad keywords #27908
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Marking this for triage. |
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Agree; this seems like a pretty obvious place where we should be consistent. |
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Triage approves. Restarting Travis; merge when it passes. |
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The deprecation needed some tweaking, and I also happened to find some other missing deprecations at the same time. |
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Nice thanks. In turn your new deprecations needed some tweaking :) Maybe this time will be good |
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My initial motivation was that
ndigits(x, [base])andlog([base], x)do quite related things (ndigits(x, base)andlog(base, x)are numerically close), but they take their arguments in reverse order, which is rather confusing. One fix would be to reverse the arguments ofndigits, but asndigitsis also closely related todigits, it seems nicer to use keywords, to follow thedigitsAPI. Also, this allows to specifypadwhile using the default value forbase-- which also removes one TODO from the code :)I had started to do the same for
Base.ndigits0z, but I noticed some performance degradation, so I suspect that constant propagation does not happen with keyword argument... Asndigits0zmay be used in somewhat more performance sensitive code and is not exported, I propose to keep its old API for now (and usingpad=0inndigitshas the same behavior asndigits0z, sondigitsis enough for user-facing API).