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- Subject: Re: [eigen] Re: Student contribution
- From: Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:51:42 +0200
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On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Christoph Hertzberg
<chtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Had this been the original purpose of the meta programming, which was
> cleaned up here?
> https://bitbucket.org/eigen/eigen/commits/ee70f8f54114/
To be honest this meta programming was mostly due to our
missunderstanding of some C++ mechanisms. Looking at it now, its only
benefits was indeed to prevent some automatic type conversions. Better
to catch them earlier anyway.
gael