DEP: Deprecate as_strided returning a writable array as default - #7105

@jakirkham if you are interested in it, this would be the blue print for making the masked array warning relatively specific.

+1 to the concept, but should get a mailing list post I think -- or has it had one and I missed it?

BTW, I think we can remove diagonal from the warning message since it's been returning read-only views for a while now?

No idea, but that is your thing, so I trust you. Send an email and just removed the diagonal mention here....

Since there seemed to be some resistance on the mailing list, I opted with just doing adding a lengthy and scary documentation ;). If anyone finds this and is interested in the other solution (also because it gives blueprints for new "warn-on-write" stuff), the old version can be found here: https://github.com/seberg/numpy/tree/writeable-as-strided-warn-on-write

This now a simple doc change.

LGTM. Do you want to also add a writeable=True kwarg, so that we at least have the option eventually to nudge people to explicitly say writeable=False?

(Or possibly writable, but I guess that like referer the ship has sailed on that one...)

Are you planning a spelling reform with writeable? ;) Anyway, added that since why not, if you already try to nudge people, make it at least easy.

"Writable" is the more standard spelling but flags uses writeable so oh well, consistency wins :-)

Thanks @seberg!

Seems my browser is set to UK english spell checking or something ;).

Should get a mention in the 1.12 release notes.