Question about array.hpp

[Joseph Wang]

I was wondering what the design rationale was for creating a new Array
class rather than using or subclassing vector<Real>?

Just curious.

[Luigi Ballabio]

On 10/08/2005 05:31:24 AM, Joseph Wang wrote:
> I was wondering what the design rationale was for creating a new  
> Array class rather than using or subclassing vector<Real>?

It was to express the concept of an array in the linear-algebra sense,  
rather than a generic container. Indeed, I shuddered slightly this  
morning when I saw TridiagonalOperator's methods being applied to  
generic containers :) I'm not sure that I like it.
Also, it allowed us to write things like operator*(Matrix,Array) which,  
being specific for linear algebram I wouldn't add to std::vector's  
interface.

Later,
        Luigi

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