Re: [boost] Is there any need for a math library doing vectors and matrices operations?

Subject: Re: [boost] Is there any need for a math library doing vectors and matrices operations?
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-11-05 12:42:39

Christophe Riccio wrote:

> "Also, I read on your site you require anonymous unions for some things. 
> Why is that?" These could be used but are disabled by default. Half floating
> numbers have become widely used on GPU first for 64 bits HDR textures and now
> even for geometry data. This imply that GLM provides vector and matrix types
> based on half floating point number. However, such type doesn't exist in C++ so
> GLM provide the a half. This type is used for vectors and matrices of half
> numbers using a template argument. GLSL specification specify that we can access
> to a vec4 using x,y,z,w but also r,g,b,a and s,t,p,q. I use union for this.

You could perfectly use member functions, that will only add "()" at the 
end.