Hi Peter, On Jul 6, 2004, at 2:51 AM, Peter Schmitteckert (boost) wrote:
I agree with you, if you restrict matrices to linear algebra. That's a fine definition. But I'm used to use the notion 'matrix' in a more general sense.
Yes... the term "matrix" has a multitude of meanings, all of which are confusingly similarly but slightly different. However, the current topic of conversation is a linear algebra library. Thus it makes sense for the purpose of this conversation to restrict the meaning to that of traditional linear algebra. Believe me, I'm not trying to exclude physicists or anyone. I'm highly in favor of there being lots of numerical libraries in Boost. There can even be many different concepts with the name "Matrix", they'll just be in different namespaces. All I'm saying is that the concept named "Matrix" in the linear algebra namespace should have the standard linear algebra meaning and syntax. Cheers, Jeremy _______________________________________________ Jeremy Siek <jsiek@osl.iu.edu> http://www.osl.iu.edu/~jsiek Ph.D. Student, Indiana University Bloomington C++ Booster (http://www.boost.org) _______________________________________________