Re: FYI: mx_inlines simplifications

[Michael Goffioul]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Jaroslav Hajek <address@hidden> wrote:
> hi all,
>
> based on the previous simplifications of the Array class hierarchy, I
> was finally able to simplify the appliers in mx-inlines:
> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/b47ab50a6aa8
>
> All the appliers are now parametrized directly by value types instead
> of array types, and are accepting & returning generic Arrays.
> The code is now much cleaner and no longer cluttered by the AELEMT
> macro. Also, there should be less distinct instances in total now,
> so maybe the compiler could merge some of them.
>
> Michael, I believe this could solve some of your compilation problems
> with MSVC, because the function template parameter in do_mx_unary_map
> no longer contains dependent names:
>
> template <class R, class X, R fun (X)>
> inline Array<R>
> do_mx_unary_map (const Array<X>& x)
>
> template <class R, class X, R fun (const X&)>
> inline Array<R>
> do_mx_unary_map (const Array<X>& x)
>
> IIRC, according to your tests MSVC handled this simpler case
> correctly. Can you confirm...?

Thanks Jaroslav. I'll give it a try asap (might take a few days, though,
I can only do this in the evening). It should indeed work, but you never
know with MSVC... ;)

Michael.