[boost] Re: uBlas and linear algebra questions

2003-07-20 Thread Kirill Lapshin
David Abrahams wrote: I'm trying to get a grip on what facilities are available for doing linear algebra with uBlas, but I can't seem to find any good information. I'm interested in such things as: LU factorization Cholesky factorization Gaussian Elimination Ordinary Least Squares Regressi

[boost] indexed_set (was: Interest in multiindex_set?(again) )

2003-07-20 Thread JOAQUIN LOPEZ MU?Z
Hi again, Discussing a library in Boost is a most exhausting task, but a most rewarding one too. After suggestions from Fernando, Beman, Jeremy and others, I've made many significant improvements to multiindex_set, now renamed to indexed_set. You can download it, along with a test suite and prelim

[boost] uBlas and linear algebra questions

2003-07-20 Thread David Abrahams
Hi, I'm trying to get a grip on what facilities are available for doing linear algebra with uBlas, but I can't seem to find any good information. I'm interested in such things as: LU factorization Cholesky factorization Gaussian Elimination Ordinary Least Squares Regression ...etc...

Re: [boost] Boost.Threads bibliography update

2003-07-20 Thread Beman Dawes
At 11:21 AM 7/19/2003, Victor A. Wagner, Jr. wrote: >At Saturday 2003-07-19 07:24, you wrote: >>I've added the entry below to the Boost.Threads bibliography page in CVS. >>I also added the Wirth quote to the FAQ: "semaphores ... are not suitable >>for higher level languages." > > > >Wirth also de

Re: [boost] Re: Fixed-decimal partial review

2003-07-20 Thread Beman Dawes
At 08:44 PM 7/19/2003, Misha Bergal wrote: >"Beman Dawes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Years ago I worked on some general business applications involving liquid >> inventories dealing in tank dimensions, gallons, coefficients of >expansion, >> and all sorts of ot

Re: [boost] Proposed smart_handle library

2003-07-20 Thread Anthony Liguori
John Madsen wrote: Starting from the smart_ptr headers (shared, scoped, and weak), I've created corresponding handle classes. The motivation is to provide RAII semantics for handle based resources. Windows' HANDLEs, FILE*s, and file descriptors are the most obvious examples. Being primaril

Re: [boost] Re: Changes with new release

2003-07-20 Thread Gennaro Prota
--- Edward Diener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it really so hard for a library implementor, who has made changes in how > his library works between releases, to write a paragraph or a page > explaining the change(s) in functionality so that others can see where the > library is going and what

[boost] Re: Proposed smart_handle library

2003-07-20 Thread Eugene Lazutkin
Inline. "John Madsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If you can convince most of the people on this list to provide an automatic > conversion, more power to you. I still maintain that avoiding hard to diagnose > errors is worth much more than saving 6 characters o

[boost] Re: Re: Proposed smart_handle library

2003-07-20 Thread Eugene Lazutkin
Inline. "John Torjo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Using operator->() and operator*() you use "pointer value itself". It is > > pretty rare situation when you need it directly and not as part of > > abc->def() or *abc constructs. Example of c_str() is irreleva

[boost] Re: Proposed smart_handle library

2003-07-20 Thread David Abrahams
Gregory Colvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday, Jul 19, 2003, at 20:52 America/Denver, Ross Smith wrote: > >> On Sunday 20 July 2003 11:46, Gregory Colvin wrote: >> >>> >>> There are no Powers That Be. Boost has no policy-based smart >>> pointers because nobody has done the difficult jo

Re: [boost] Re: Proposed smart_handle library

2003-07-20 Thread John Torjo
> > Using operator->() and operator*() you use "pointer value itself". It is > pretty rare situation when you need it directly and not as part of > abc->def() or *abc constructs. Example of c_str() is irrelevant --- you can > do all string manipulations without c_str(). The former is needed to > in

Re: [boost] Re: Proposed smart_handle library

2003-07-20 Thread John Torjo
> Alan Bellingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>did they give you the name of this library? > > > > Presumably this is WTL - the Windows Template Library. > > That's the one. > -- I've used it and it's great! I hated MFC for a long time, WTL is indeed cool! And as far as I know it's develop

Re: [boost] current_function.hpp extension

2003-07-20 Thread John Torjo
Hi Peter, > > If a compiler has a current function facility but is not currently supported > by current_function.hpp, if you show '(unknown)' users of this compiler will > spot the problem and submit a patch, or at least report it to us. > > If not, they may not even realize that the library could

[boost] Re: Proposed smart_handle library

2003-07-20 Thread Gennadiy Rozental
> I read all of the previous discussion of this on the boost list and did not > find any good arguments against mine. > 1) Pointer specific features have been removed for smart_handle. Both > implicit and explicit type coercion features are gone as are operators * and ->. I do not see anything w

Re: [boost] Re: plans for a bugfix release ?

2003-07-20 Thread Aleksey Gurtovoy
David Abrahams wrote: > Aleksey Gurtovoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Any reason you cannot use > > http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/resources/cvs_RC_1_30_0/developer_summary_page.html? > > None, in particular. This table is a little weird though: > > http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/