I think a Matrix could also have, for example, rational function terms, and also you want to be able to support general expression terms. How would that fit in your model?
Aaron Meurer On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Sherjil Ozair <sherjiloz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > I took ideas from mattpap's thesis at [1], specifically the idea of multi > level structure. > The hierarchy I have in mind is > Level 0 : A collection of functions that operate on groundtypes(GMPY, > Python, Sympy). > Functions of this layer will receive the Matrix data as arguments. > Function names will be prefixed with identifiers as to which data structure > it works on. > This layer is unaware of Matrix classes. > Functions of this level can only call functions of the same level. > All the algorithms for factorization, etc. will be implemented in this > level. > Level 1 : A collection of classes like DOKMatrix, COOMatrix, DenseMatrix, > etc. > The data structure is defined in this class. > This class will have user functions which use the functions of level 0. > Level 2 : The Matrix class > These class which will return one of the class of level 1 using the __new__ > function. > This idea is still unformed. I invite comments to help me evolve this idea. > Ask if you feel something is not clear. > > [1] http://mattpap.github.com/masters-thesis/html/src/internals.html > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
