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Re: Parameter vectors declared as const in minimized functions

Andrej Prsa writes:
 > I'm sorry to be bugging you guys again; although I find the discussion
 > about const'ness very valuable, I still wonder whether it is really
 > necessary to have gsl_vector * that the minimized function takes as the
 > first argument qualified as const? I realize there are ways to come around
 > this issue, but is there any particular justifier for having it constant
 > in the first place?

The algorithms won't work properly if the position is modified
arbitrarily.  See the post by F.Bastin.

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Brian Gough

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