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Re: new double precision data structure?


At Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:47:50 +0300,
Tuomo Keskitalo wrote:
> On 09/27/2009 07:34 PM, James Bergstra wrote:
> > Firstly, the ndarray untyped.  The data is in a void * pointer or a
> > char * pointer or something, and there is an extra enum-valued field
> > that indicates what sort of elements make up the data.  For example, 0
> > might mean int8, 1 might mean uint8, 2 might mean int32, 10 might mean
> > float32, 11 float64, 12 complex64, and so on.  There is support for
> 
> This implies that GSL should support other elementary types than double. 
> What do people think about this?

I think the types in multidimensional arrays ought to follow the
existing arrangement and naming convention as for vector and matrices.


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