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data-apis / array-api

RFC document, tooling and other content related to the array API standard
https://data-apis.github.io/array-api/latest/
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Update 'Purpose and Scope' for complex dtype support #711

Closed lucascolley closed 7 months ago

lucascolley commented 7 months ago

'Purpose and Scope' still states that complex dtypes will be included in a future version.

  1. Standardization of these dtypes is out of scope: bfloat16, complex, extended precision floating point, datetime, string, object and void dtypes.

    Rationale: these dtypes aren't uniformly supported, and their inclusion at this point in time could put a significant implementation burden on libraries. It is expected that some of these dtypes - in particular bfloat16, complex64, and complex128 - will be included in a future version of the standard.