On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 3:28 AM, Thomas Klimpel <Thomas.Klimpel@synopsys.com> wrote:
Just tell me that higher dimensional tensors are clearly out of scope of the library, and everything is fine.
Ah I see. The honest answer is, I don't know, I have never used tensors. You can ask another similar question: what if someone needs vectors but not matrices? This is not an abstract question, I have written such programs. I have been very careful in organizing the header files -- if you don't include matrix headers from (Boost) LA, you don't get any matrix stuff in your code (and if this statement is ever found to be wrong, I would treat that situation as a bug.) I would say that *if* tensors can be implemented without adding *any* weight to a use case where they are not needed, then perhaps they should be part of the library. From this abstract point of view, I am not sure I have a reasonable answer to the question "why stop at 2." However I don't feel qualified to make that call. Emil Dotchevski Reverge Studios, Inc. http://www.revergestudios.com/reblog/index.php?n=ReCode