Re: [Chicken-users] atlas-lapack egg release 1.0

[Pierre-Alexandre Fournier]

Hi,

>    I decided to allow the functions to mutate their arguments in order
> to be consistent with the original ATLAS/LAPACK functions.

I understand. It makes sense to me.

>    You are right about returning multiple values -- it is redundant if
> the arguments to the function are mutated. You would use something like:
>
>   (let-values (((a b)  (atlas-lapack:dgesv order n nrhs a b)))
>
>      ...do stuff...
>
> but perhaps that's not necessary, if the function changes its
> arguments.

I'd rather avoid let-values if it is not necessary, but this is a
personal preference. Other people may have good reasons to keep the
use of let-values even in this case. You wrote the interface so I will
let you decide what's best.

Cheers,

Pierre-Alexandre