Geometry Boost List: [ggl] cartesian distance

Subject: [ggl] cartesian distance
From: Bruno Lalande (bruno.lalande)
Date: 2010-05-18 09:16:14

Hi Barend,

Just to make sure I understand correctly, the plan now is thus to make
the distance function return a real numeric type rather than a special
comparable type, and have a comparable_distance function that returns
the squared result explicitly?

If yes, will comparable_distance return the same (non-numeric) type as
what distance used to return, or will that be a real numeric type the
value of which is squared, and that can thus not be used for anything
else than comparisons?

Regards
Bruno