[eigen] cwise ops nomenclature |
[ Thread Index |
Date Index
| More lists.tuxfamily.org/eigen Archives
]
- To: eigen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: [eigen] cwise ops nomenclature
- From: Manoj Rajagopalan <rmanoj@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 12:32:29 -0400
- Organization: EECS Dept., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Hi eigen developers,
This suggestion might be a little presumptuous but here it is anyway: I
think cwise<Op>() member functions could be better understood and remember if
renamed to ewise<Op>() or elemwise<Op>() or elementwise<Op>(). Here is why I
think so:
1. I keep getting dragged into thinking that cwise<Op>() is column-wise as
opposed to coefficient-wise. I think this is because I was introduced to
cwise... and colwise() on the same day when I read the Eigen tutorial page.
This might be the case with others who get introduced to Eigen.
2. The contents of matrices and vectors are usually referred to as elements
more than coefficients. A "coefficient" is an entity that usually accompanies
something else (as a multiplicative factor). In this sense, matrices (which
are representations of linear operators in a certain basis) often are the
coefficients themselves in a polynomial or multidimensional ODE (resulting
from discretization of PDEs). I do suppose the elements of a matrix can be
called coefficients because they do multiply components of vectors to whcih
they are applied ...
cheers!
Manoj