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- Subject: Re: [eigen] Serious conflict between Dynamic and -1 in Diagonal<>
- From: Rhys Ulerich <rhys.ulerich@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 07:57:26 -0500
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> So introducing a new token seems to be less impacting
> solution. Moreover, I just thought about another argument: I think
> that except in Diagonal<>, Dynamic is only used to refer to a runtime
> *size* (positive), while here we are talking about a runtime *index*
> (positive or negative). If that's true, it's not chocking to introduce
> a DynamicIndex token.
>
> Does 'DynamicIndex' sound a good name to you?
Eh.. that makes the legacy "Dynamic" effectively "DynamicSize" and it
seems that you'd have to introduce some concept checking to ensure
folks didn't use Diagonal<Expression,DynamicSize>. Not sure how you'd
accomplish that cleanly since DynamicSize is signed and DynamicIndex
has to be signed.
- Rhys