Re: [boost] [rfc] A light weight statically typed matrix template class (again?)

From: Dave Steffen (dgsteffen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-12-13 11:03:30

Serves me right for responding to the list without catching up on
reading it first... 

On Tuesday 11 December 2007, Martin Bonner wrote:

... a much better reply than my last one, e.g. said most of the same
things but better. :-)

> From: Andreas Harnack
>
> > Dave Steffen schrieb:
> >> On Thursday 06 December 2007, Andreas Harnack wrote:
[...]
> >>   The C++ landscape is littered with such things, from simpler than
> >>   your example to fantastically elaborate.  See
> >>   <http://www.oonumerics.org/oon/> for a sample.
> >
> > I'd take that as a proof that there is a need for
> > standardization, however the result might look like.
>
> That's a curious conclusion.  If there are lots of attempts, it suggests
> that it is really difficult to get people to agree on the preferred
> approach.

  Yes, that was exactly my point.

  :-)

  And by the way, I didn't really mean to imply that the OP (Andreas)
  really shouldn't roll his own library (although I probably said
  that, or something like it).  He should, because it's a very
  instructive exercise.  It wouldn't be such a bad idea to have
  one, or even several, small matrix libraries in Boost.  It's just
  not a suitable thing for standardization.

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