Disable interpolation as default for non equal size input

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Disable interpolation as default for non equal size input #5411

Open hoxbro opened 2 years ago

hoxbro commented 2 years ago

I find it non-intuitive that interpolation is done by default.

An example of this:

import holoviews as hv
hv.extension()
hv.Scatter((range(4), range(3)))

I discussed this with @jlstevens and he couldn't remember why this was done and suggested I opened an issue and added it to the v2.0 milestone.

jlstevens commented 2 years ago

Honestly, I suspect it might be an implementation detail where the components are zipped together (as opposed to an explicit design decision) but this behavior is so old I can't be sure!

At least I can say that nowadays, I would probably prefer an error for this constructor.

droumis commented 2 years ago

To avoid issues with back compatibility, we should issue a warning that the data is unequal length.