2012/3/5 Gilles Sadowski <gil...@harfang.homelinux.org>: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 01:17:18PM +0100, Sébastien Brisard wrote: >> 2012/3/5 sebb <seb...@gmail.com>: >> > 2012/3/5 Sébastien Brisard <sebastien.bris...@m4x.org>: >> >> Le 5 mars 2012 09:57, Sébastien Brisard <sebastien.bris...@m4x.org> a >> >> écrit : >> >>> Hi, >> >>> I would like to make the following addition to the FieldElement<T> >> >>> interface: >> >>> T divide(int n) >> >>> which would formally be defined as >> >>> this.divide(n) = this.divide(this.getOne().multiply(n)). >> >>> >> >>> This would simplify some expressions, eg integration of polynomials (a >> >>> * x**k becomes a / (k+1) * x ** (k+1)). >> >>> >> >>> What do you think? >> >>> Sébastien >> >> >> >> Please note that the change would hardly be noticeable, as many of the >> >> classes implementing FieldElement already implement divide(int). >> >> Sébastien >> > >> > Also, adding a method to an interface is binary compatible. >> > It is not source compatible. >> > >> > Sebastian >> > >> Ooops. >> That's true. I guess I'll have to postpone this one until 4.0... Sorry >> about that... >> Let me rephrase that: would you *in principle* agree with this new >> feature? If that's OK, I could file a (very long term) JIRA ticket (to >> be fixed in 4.0). > > It's nowhere written that major releases should be few and far between. > > > Gilles > Gilles, I like that spirit! Sébastien
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