Re: [boost] Boost.Numeric: multi_array spec/docs

From: Toon Knapen (toon_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-03-29 09:54:07

Jeremy Siek wrote:
> http://www.lsc.nd.edu/~jsiek/tlc/multi_array/libs/numeric/doc/multi_array.html
> 
> Comments expected :)

As for terminology, there's a conflict with Blitz. Blitz uses subarray
as a partial view (with the same rank) where a slice has lower rank. 
In your doc subarray also has a lower rank. Maybe it would also be 
a good idea to define the terminology used. Making no distinction
between both might be confusing to the user (diff. between
indexing with a range which contains only 1 or more indices)

Why is the index signed ? There were arguments about fortran or 
C-style but I would expect the sign-type to be generall size_t

Maybe for the concept of the index_range a model that
supports non-strided ranges could be provided for indirect addressing ?

toon