Re: ANN: miscellaneous Math routines, GPL'd

[gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com]

On 13 Mai, 11:25, johns...@googlemail.com wrote:

> Another irritation:  suppose user declares
>
>   V : Vector (1..10);
>   M : Matrix (0..9, 0..9);
> or worse
>   M : Matrix (0..9, 2..11);
> or worse still
>   M : Matrix (0..11, 2..11);
>
> How do you handle it?
> 1. shift indices during iteration inside loops in the lin alg program.
> 2. slide arrays so indices coincide.
> 3. Raise constraint_error;
> 4. Assume they won't do it.
>
> I do 3. (See for example procedure Choleski_Decompose at end of
> Disorderly-Random-Deviates.adb  and near bottom of
> Disorderly-Random-Deviates.ads.)   But I'm not sure what to do.
> (I was going ask here on comp.lang.ada, but got lazy.)
> Generics with constrained arrays work ok for me here.

It's done here:
http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~squire/adaclass/gnatmath95 ,
generic_real_linear_equations.ads .

For using with Ada 2005's matrices, all you need is to replace
package Generic_Real_Arrays by Ada.Numerics.Generic_Real_Arrays
:-)
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