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feat: add support for specifying a data type "kind" in `astype`

Open lucascolley opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

This PR:

  • Addresses a comment made in https://github.com/data-apis/array-api/issues/841#issuecomment-2392032433 and should close https://github.com/data-apis/array-api/issues/859 by adding data type "kind" support in astype.

lucascolley avatar Oct 24 '24 14:10 lucascolley

Gentle reminder of the 2024 milestone here!

lucascolley avatar Dec 13 '24 10:12 lucascolley

As discussed during the workgroup meeting on January 23, 2025, given that this is new behavior without any downstream implementations, we decided to do two things:

  1. Punt to v2025 in order to avoid rushing this into the spec.
  2. Incubate the API in array-api-compat in order to work out any design issues after having real-world implementations.

@ev-br Would you mind adding to array-api-compat and circling back here?

kgryte avatar Feb 06 '25 03:02 kgryte