Re: ublas : size1 <-> nrows

From: jhrwalter (walter_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-01-18 17:39:35

--- In boost_at_y..., Toon Knapen <toon.knapen_at_s...> wrote:
> jhrwalter wrote:
> 
> > I once experimented with something like this. But an easy 
> > implementation seemed to require partial template specialization 
> > (especially for matrix row and column iterators) and I was tired 
of 
> > workarounds for the most popular compiler ;-)
> 
> 
> An option would be to add such functions which are ifdef'd with 
> BOOST_NO_TEMPLATE_PARTIAL_SPECIALIZATION and thus wont be 
accessible on 
> these compilers. This way, development of the library is not 
restricted 
> due to these compilers.

Correct. In our current development version we already use something 
like this for some optimizations. But in the case of matrix iterators 
for example the required changes possibly could break MSVC 
compatibility.

> On the other hand, I believe that VC++ is your main development 
platform 
> so this might not be an option for you ?

It's an option in a limited scope.

Regards

Joerg