We chose pointers to emphasise they are out parameters. I would not add overloads taking references but maybe a version returning everything within a struct to be used with C++17 structure bindings?
On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 3:27 AM Meng Zhu <[email protected]> wrote: > hi, I noticed eigen maxCoeff function ( > https://eigen.tuxfamily.org/dox/classEigen_1_1DenseBase.html#a784e23ccbb39e7c57b70af386f94f8b5) > takes pointers to return the max entry coord, and there is no overload to > take reference type. is there a reason to not provide reference access? > thanks. > > Meng > > >
