<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > And what should happen for vectors of size != 3 ? I don't think that a > > general purpose vector class should allow it; a Vector3D subclass would > > be more natural for this. > > That's the 'magic' good idea I'm looking for. I think a unified Vector > class for all size vectors is a worthy goal!
What 'magic' ? The (x,y,z) notation is used only for 3D vectors. (x,y) is also common for 2D and perhaps (t,x,y,z) for 4D, with t for time. There are only 26 letters (or 52 if you allow capitals), so I don't see how this can be generalized _usefully_ to arbitrary number of dimensions. George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
