Re: [Boost-users] Why does not ublas overload operators?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Why does not ublas overload operators?
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-12-26 13:28:27

AMDG

Allen Chen wrote:
> Six years ago, I design my own matrix library like matlab. I overload
> operators, it make it conveninent to do matrix manupulations. For
> example
>
> matrix A, B, C, D;
> A = B*C +D;
>
> It is easy to use and read.
>
> Why does not ublas overload such operators as +, -, *, /, ^, [], (),...
>   

It does.  However, operator* only works for multiplying by a scalar.  
For matrix-matrix
multiplication use prod.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe