Re: Looking for Ada Technique Name and References

[dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner)]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 08:05:50 GMT, tmoran@bix.com <tmoran@bix.com> wrote:
>> type Transpose is new Matrix;
>> D := Transpose (E) * F;  --  D gets the result of multiplying E'F
>  Perhaps there's a term for it among magicians.  You get the audience's
>attention focused on what you seem to be doing to E, and they don't
>notice that you're actually doing something to '*' instead.  Is this
>for an obfuscated code contest?

Why is this obfuscated? It does Transpose (E) * F. The * operator does
multiplication.  Transpose does invert the array, it just does so by
redefining it instead of moving stuff around in memory. It's not the
clearest thing in the world, but it's entirely reasonable, especially
for the optimization done.

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David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
Only a nerd would worry about wrong parentheses with
square brackets. But that's what mathematicians are.
   -- Dr. Burchard, math professor at OSU