On Saturday, 28 December 2013 at 16:33:24 UTC, Joseph Rushton
Wakeling wrote:
On 28/12/13 16:24, Dicebot wrote:
AFAIK it is intentionally banned to constrain operator
overloading abuse.
Ahh, makes sense. But isn't it possible to do something with
templates that would allow for something like,
auto a = matrix(...);
auto b = matrix(...);
auto c = ElementWise!("a * b");
... where the ElementWise template would ensure that the binary
operation is applied successively to corresponding pairs of
elements from the matrices?
how about:
a.elementWise * b
where a.elementWise returns a wrapper struct around a that
implements elementwise arithmetic as opposed to the normal
arithmetic.
The operators would return instances of Matrix, not elementWise,
to avoid accidentally spilling a Matrix.ElementWise struct in to
ensuing code unintentionally. With a shorter alias it's rather
neat.
auto e = ((a .EW* b) .EW/ c ) * d;
