On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Keean Schupke wrote:
Henning Thielemann wrote:
My objections to making everything a matrix were the objections I sketched for MatLab.
The example, again: If you write some common expression like
transpose x * a * x
Which just goes to show why haskell limits the '*' operator to multiplying the same types. Keep this to Matrix-times-Matrix operators.
Btw. the interface file by Alberto gives you uniform usage of an operator symbol (<>) while retaining full type safety by functional dependencies. http://dis.um.es/~alberto/hmatrix/doc/LinearAlgebra.Interface.html This is a good solution, I think.
I feel using separate types for vectors and scalars just overcomplicates things...
I'm excited if your code gets swamped by conversions between Double and Matrix then. I really plead for representing everything with strings, this is the most simple and most flexible solution! :-]