Re: Octave and cargo cult programmingHello

[marco atzeri]

On 9/16/2012 5:10 AM, Sergei Steshenko wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: marco atzeri
> > To:
> > Cc:
> > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 8:21 AM
> > Subject: Re: Octave and cargo cult programmingHello
> >
> > On 9/14/2012 12:42 AM, Sergei Steshenko wrote:
> > >
> >
> > >   And regarding cargo cult linear algebra - row <-> column vector
> > should only be taken into account only if not taking it into account can produce
> > ambiguous results.
> > >   For that matter, since both inner and outer products exist:
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_multiplication#The_inner_and_outer_products
> > -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_product ->
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_product , if they both supported by default,
> > none deserves a warning.
> > >   So, again, there should be a, say,
> > >
> > >   linear_algebra_compatibility;
> > >
> > >   compiler pragma which introduces new laws of dealing with vectors and
> > matrices.
> >
> > this does make no sense.
> > We can not have two binary variant, one with and one without
> > broadcasting.
> > The life of package manager is already hard to deal with dependencies,
> > having two flavours of octave is insane.
> >
> > >   Regards,
> > >      Sergei.
> >
> > don't like broadcasting ?  don't use it.
> > Stop to boring us.
> >
> > Marco
>
> It _does_ make sense. Every decent language nowadays allows operator 
> overloading.
>
> For example, read http://perldoc.perl.org/bigint.html . From there:
>
> "
>
> All operators (including basic math operations) are overloaded. Integer
> constants are created as proper BigInts.
> Floating point constants are truncated to integer. All parts and results of
> expressions are also truncated.
> Unlike integer, this pragma creates integer constants that are only
> limited in their size by the available memory and CPU time.".

this is not pragma compiler.
It is the introduction of pragmas in the octave language.

> So, I do not want broadcasting and similar bullshit to be splashed on me by 
> Octave developers. Instead I want a set of modules/pragmas which would allow me 
> to use the (sub)set of math I want/need.

I do not remember your code (or any comments) when the matter was
discussed in the maintainers list.
Feel free to propose any patch on the matter

> Regards,
>    Sergei.

Regards
Marco