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On Monday 20 October 2008 21:26:22 Gael Guennebaud wrote:
> hm, are you sure ?
>
> for (int j=0; j<m.cols(); ++j)
>
> if cols()==0, then there is no big deal. actually I don't see where
> this could be a pb since we already check that the sizes match....
> maybe I miss something ?
>
> ah, now I see, in some place we initialize an accumulation with the
> first coeff, assuming the size is >= 1...
Yes, that's the kind of thing I was thinking about...
> so the next question is
> whether a size equal to zero is valid or not ? We can still autorize
> empty matrices to live while stating it is forbidden to use it (except
> on the lhs of =).
Yes, if we allow 0-size matrices then that's the way I see things should be.
> Then we only have to add some assertions.
Yes.
>
> Or should we allow, e.g.:
>
> MatrixXd m;
> m.sum();
>
> to return 0 ?
Hmm I'm really not in favor of that. For sum it seems sort of natural to
return 0 but for other operations there is no natural value to return. Like
maximum, etc.
Cheers,
Benoit
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