Re: Is there anything else that should be fixed for 2.9.5 or 2.1.73?

[John W. Eaton]

On 19-Mar-2006, David Bateman wrote:

| 2) Add an argument to the solve code that is just there for the dmsolve 
| function to prevent ::solve from recalling dmsolve. This is slightly 
| ugly, but perhaps less than the above.

Would this be the simplest thing to do until we can find a better
solution?

| 3) Try and rewrite the dmsolve template functions as a template class or 
| as part of the SparseMatrix class itself. In the first case, the class  
| can be made a friend of SparseMatrix and SpaseComplexMatrix,and the 
| second it implicitly as access. This seems to be a relatively large 
| change for limited gain, and I'm not sure that I can do it without code 
| duplication, which was the reason to write the code as a template 
| function in the first place.

What are the problems with declaring the function as a friend?  Can
you give a small example that shows what you want or what causes
trouble?

jwe