[SciPy-dev] one more scipy.optimize.line_search question

[Alan G Isaac]

> Alan G Isaac wrote:
>> As to why the stepsize bound is not used in the latter, 
>> you will have to ask Travis. 

On Tue, 07 Aug 2007, dmitrey apparently wrote:
> If you'll just try ctrl-f "amax" in optimize.py, you'll see that it has 
> only 2 : one - definition of amax as a func and one - in line_search 
> func input args. So the value is unused in line_search. 

Right; as I said, only Travis can say why this is currently 
unused the line_search function in optimize.py.  If I were 
to guess, I'd guess he did not get around to implementing 
the stepsize bound yet, but there may be a more interesting 
explanation.

Cheers,
Alan Isaac