Re: History

Posted by Luigi Ballabio-2 on Dec 19, 2002; 12:54am
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/Autotools-tp10178p10181.html

At 11:02 PM 12/18/02 +0100, Sadruddin Rejeb wrote:
>I would like to suggest to make the History class a
>template on the kind of data we want to store. For example, instead of
>double, I would like to treat a historical time serie of stock data
>represented by a struct (high, low, close, volume).

Hi Sad,
         sounds good. Just don't do it right now since we're trying to
freeze the library to branch out a release. As soon as the branch is made
you can start working on it as far as I'm concerned.

>We could then also use History<Rate> in the XiborManager class and thus use a
>custom Rate class to represent  interest rates.

Do you mean that Rate is not satisfactory as a typedef to double? In which
way? (and Nando, I don't want to hear about positive constraints right now)

Later,
         Luigi