Re: [boost] Preview 3 of the Geometry Library

Subject: Re: [boost] Preview 3 of the Geometry Library
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-10-16 17:40:03

AMDG

Simonson, Lucanus J wrote:
> My preference would be to have a circle data type, a sphere data type
> and a hypersphere data type.  Only the hypersphere would be
> parameterized on dimension.  The user would pick the object that is
> named for what they want.  If a user wants a circle they are going to be
> frustrated and confounded that we provide them nsphere<2>.   There is
> something of a conceptual disconnect between circle and sphere.

What is wrong with
    typedef nsphere<2> circle;
?

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe