Edward Grace wrote:
but they are handled differently (different public interface) vector is modeled after std::valarray (everybody knows about valarray) and matrix is just a generalization of std::valarray behavior oh and vector is a column-vector
Just don't name it vector then. In lin. Alg. a vector is a matrix with one dimension equal to 1. if not, ppl will wonder why matrix*vector doesn't mean what they think it does.
Just to stick my oar in -- there is also a subtle difference between a covector and a vector. This rarely seems to get a look-in when people implement linear algebra stuff. They may well be represented as a tuple in both cases but they interact differently. For example.
Exactly and that's lead to impractical interface. Having vector be matrix with one dim = 1 solves this. -- ___________________________________________ Joel Falcou - Assistant Professor PARALL Team - LRI - Universite Paris Sud XI Tel : (+33)1 69 15 66 35