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Glas :Re: [glas] MTL3 design ? [was MTL project site is up] |
From: Karl Meerbergen (Karl.Meerbergen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-03 11:19:31
David Abrahams wrote:
>Theodore Papadopoulo <Theodore.Papadopoulo_at_[hidden]> writes:
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>>Not necessarily... Default construction just creates empty objects (0
>>dimensional) that need to be resized at some point. My point is not to
>>forbid resizing (even though it is seldom needed in practice), but not
>>to change the sizes implicitly (eg by assignment or copy or
>>transposition-in-place).
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>All my experience tells me that if you are going to allow some
>resizing and forbid others, assignment is exactly the place it should
>be allowed. I don't see how copying could possibly change the size of
>anything, and I don't see any compelling reason to forbid in-place
>transposition of vectors and non-square matrices.
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Agreed.
Karl