From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: efficient vector/matrix operations in Ada
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 21:30:46 GMT
Date: 2001-08-13T21:30:46+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aGXd7.88$2u.23428@www.newsranger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bebbba07.0108131145.8e90df5@posting.google.com
In article <bebbba07.0108131145.8e90df5@posting.google.com>, Russ says...
(talking about matrices with redefined math ops)
>Here's how you write "A = B + C + D;" efficiently:
>
> A = B;
> A += C;
> A += D;
>
>really needs arithmetic assignment operators. Sure, you can use
>procedures, but they're intent and effect is not as obvious to the
>reader.
Perhaps to a reader who is *already* familiar with the idiom above that is true.
I'm not, and it took me a couple of takes to see what you were doing here (and a
bit of thought to figure out why). For someone starting from ground zero, I
think the point is quite arguable.
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-07 1:13 efficient vector/matrix operations in Ada Russ
2001-08-07 2:18 ` Dale Stanbrough
2001-08-07 2:21 ` tmoran
2001-08-07 3:04 ` Russ P.
2001-08-10 16:54 ` B.Gaffney
2001-08-13 7:50 ` Dmitry Kazakov
2001-08-13 19:45 ` Russ
2001-08-13 20:23 ` Larry Hazel
2001-08-13 21:26 ` Ted Dennison
2001-08-14 4:46 ` Russ
2001-08-14 5:28 ` David Starner
2001-08-14 8:17 ` Alexander Boucke
2001-08-14 8:56 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2001-08-14 10:54 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2001-08-13 21:30 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2001-08-14 4:56 ` Russ
2001-08-14 7:32 ` efficient vector/matrix operations in Fortran, was Re: ... " tmoran
2001-08-14 14:05 ` efficient vector/matrix operations " Ted Dennison
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