It would be confusing because it's at odds with all the mathematical literature in existence.
> On May 16, 2014, at 5:21 PM, francois.fay...@gmail.com wrote: > > Why would it be confusing ? > > I've seen as many math people (with no knowledge of memory ordering in > programming languages) giving matrices in row major order and giving matrices > in column major order. > >> On Friday, May 16, 2014 11:10:19 PM UTC+2, Stefan Karpinski wrote: >> It's less about the array ordering and more about the fact that >> mathematically the row index comes before the column index and doing it the >> other way would be very confusing. It's a shame these don't match, but >> there's not much to do about it.
