Re: min and max functions

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> Thinking about this a little more, is the Matrix class in the wrong
> spot in the hierarchy?  Is it necessary to have the Array2 and MArray2
> classes now (they really only exist for historical reasons as Octave
> did not originally have N-d arrays)?  Should the Matrix class just be
> an NDArray object with the added constraint that there are only two
> dimensions?  If so, what would be the right way to enforce that?
>   
Well yes in a sense it would make sense to get rid of them, though that 
might involve a little work to get the methods that only work on 2D 
arrays implemented in the NDArray class (eg solve). However, there is 
also some code in octave-forge that depends on Array2 as it was written 
prior to NDArray's notably my galois field and fixed point classes, and 
they would have to also be rewritten if the Array2 classes were dropped.

I'm not saying this is a bad thing, just that it might be more work than 
originally thought and have other unwanted consequences for external code.

D.

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