<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:tahoma, 'new york', times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div>I think Zoltan was referring to the idea that operator overloading can be confusing for users of the code, and therefore create bugs in calling code even if the operators perform exactly as they were designed to.</div><div><br></div><div>Hence the suggestion to refactor the code so that explicit method names were used instead.</div><div style="font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Alan Grimes <agrimes@speakeasy.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> ktechlab-devel@lists.sourceforge.net<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, 6 July, 2009 3:04:59<br><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Ktechlab-devel] QMatrix - Random number generation<br></font><br>P Zoltan wrote:<br>> ... and another note on QuickMatrix and QuickVector: the operators <br>> defined on these look like a good candidate for sources of bugs. I'd <br>> prefer to change the operators to some methods with same functionality and <br>> intiutive names. Opinions?<br><br>Could you be more specific?<br><br>I'm fairly confident that they aren't actually buggy, at least I'm not<br>tracking any bugs in either of those classes at present. The bug I<br>mentioned earlier in the week is in the LU decomposition engine.<br><br>-- <br>New president: Here we go again...<br>Chemistry.com: A total rip-off.<br>Powers are not rights.<br><br><br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>_______________________________________________<br>Ktechlab-devel mailing
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