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Remove recommendation of no other public names in namespace #928
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The __array_namespace__ docs say
It may contain other public names as well, but it is recommended to only include those names that are part of the specification.
Is this something we still want to recommend? Or is this a historical artefact from the times of numpy.array_api?
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rgommers commentedon Apr 17, 2025
Good catch - that's almost certainly a historical artifact. It may still be a reasonable idea for a new library written from scratch that wants to limits its scope to an array object and fundamental operations on/with it, but it certainly doesn't apply to NumPy, PyTorch et al. So best to just remove it. Want to open a PR?
fix: remove recommendation of no other public names in namespace