Re: [boost] different matrix library?

Subject: Re: [boost] different matrix library?
From: DE (satan66613_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-08-14 17:27:36

on 15.08.2009 at 1:12
 Edward Grace wrote :
>>> it's terribly wrong to overload '^' in such a way
> Why?  The precedence rules?  Fair enough - sometimes what's tempting
> is bad for you, but you still want to try it anyway!
because '^' is associated with bitwise xor operator and there is no
such operation on vectors
it is semantically wrong

>>>>    w = wedge(u,v);
>> w = cross_product(u,v) please :p
> Err, that's only true in 3D (vectors of length 3).  There's no such
> thing as a cross product between (say) vectors of length 2,4 or  
> indeed anything else.  The cross product is, in effect, a restricted  
> version of the exterior (wedge) product which exists for higher  
> dimensions.
if i get the point right consider
    wedge_product(u,v)
or
    exterior_product(u,v)

-- 
Pavel