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- Subject: Re: [eigen] LinSpaced() API
- From: Hauke Heibel <hauke.heibel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:41:47 +0200
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Hi Jitse,
I wrote those functions....
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Jitse Niesen <jitse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm adding some bits to Tutorial page 5 (advanced initialization).
Thank you for doing this since I am hardly finding any time at the moment.
> While
> doing this, I noticed the order of the arguments for the static methods
> Constant() and LinSpaced() for vectors:
>
> Constant(size, value) versus LinSpaced(low, high, size)
>
> I guess that the order of arguments for LinSpaced() mirrors the order for
> the Matlab function linspace. However, it does seem inconsistent when
> compared to the order of arguments for Constant(). I think that consistency
> within Eigen is more important than consistency with Matlab, so what about
> changing the order to LinSpaced(size, low, high)?
That's true and I am fine with switching. Last chance for breaking the
API, right?
> Additionally, I note that there is no fixed-size variant without the size
> argument. Is there any reason for that?
I cannot recall why I did not implement this. It should be simply to
add an overload. I can do both changes right now.
- Hauke