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

[John W. Eaton]

On 21-Mar-2006, David Bateman wrote:

| John W. Eaton wrote:
| 
| >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
| >
| Ok, then what about the attached patch..

Seems OK to me.  Please check it in, then I will make the 2.9.5
snapshot.

Thanks,

jwe