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Re: deprecated functions
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Re: deprecated functions |
Date: |
Thu, 5 Mar 2009 03:08:23 -0500 |
On 5-Mar-2009, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
| I don't think we should copy Matlab's defects, and what you suggest is
| of course sensible. The only reason I didn't do it when I was creating
| diagonal matrices was the compatibility issue. I have a strong feeling
| that we should do something like a ballot.
|
| As for the work, I'd like to kindly ask you to first share your plans.
| You see, actually enabling the behavior you ask for is almost as easy
| as changing the default conversion of diagonal matrices to sparse
| ones, then I think just about everything will immediatelly work
| correctly, though not as efficiently as it could.
| We should certainly specialize diag * sparse and diag \ sparse, and
| probably also diag + sparse and diag - sparse (because we do so for
| dense matrices), but it can, and should, be done incrementally.
|
| I would like to reuse as much code as reasonably possible here.
Either way, this seems like a fairly significant and risky change, so
I would prefer to do it after 3.2.
jwe
- Re: deprecated functions, (continued)
- Re: deprecated functions, Jaroslav Hajek, 2009/03/04
- Re: deprecated functions, John W. Eaton, 2009/03/04
- Re: deprecated functions, Jaroslav Hajek, 2009/03/04
- Re: deprecated functions, John W. Eaton, 2009/03/04
- Re: deprecated functions, Jason Riedy, 2009/03/04
- Re: deprecated functions, Jaroslav Hajek, 2009/03/04
- Re: deprecated functions, Jason Riedy, 2009/03/04
- Re: deprecated functions, Jaroslav Hajek, 2009/03/05
- Re: deprecated functions,
John W. Eaton <=
- Re: deprecated functions, Jaroslav Hajek, 2009/03/05
- Re: deprecated functions, Jason Riedy, 2009/03/05
- Re: deprecated functions, Jaroslav Hajek, 2009/03/05
- Re: deprecated functions, John W. Eaton, 2009/03/04
- Re: deprecated functions, Jason Riedy, 2009/03/04
- Re: deprecated functions, John W. Eaton, 2009/03/04
- Re: deprecated functions, Jaroslav Hajek, 2009/03/05
- Re: deprecated functions, Jason Riedy, 2009/03/05
- Re: deprecated functions, Jason Riedy, 2009/03/04
- Re: deprecated functions, Jaroslav Hajek, 2009/03/04