Jason: Thanks for the tune-up. I'm not surprised that there are some efficiencies to be had. I'll get the wiki, and other copies of the worksheet, updated this evening.
Jason and Carl: It'd be great if vector-valued functions continued to "just work" after being hit by fast_float so students could experiment with them. In other words, if fast_float had an object of type vector as input, the output would continue to have type vector. For example, it would be confusing if "+" used between two "vectors" became the list operation of concatenation, rather than the vector space operation of component-wise addition. On Feb 16, 2:18 pm, jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: > Carl Witty wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 1:36 PM, <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > > >> I found that vectors should be handled by fast_float to create callable > >> vectors. I guess Carl is working on the fast_float code to do stuff > >> like this (arrays in fast_float; I've CCd him in case he isn't > >> subscribed here). > > > I haven't been thinking about the high-level interface so much, but > > I'll certainly be working on that too. > > > I think that currently if you give fast_float a list of expressions, > > it returns a list of callables. I'm not sure what your request is; > > you want to change it to return a single callable that returns a list? > > That would be consistent usage with vectors. If I pass a symbolic > vector (not a list) to fast_float, a "vector" should be returned, i.e., > a single callable that returns a list, or even better, returns an RDF > vector. > > I can see the use-case for passing a list of callables and receiving a > list of callables, so I wouldn't change that behavior. > > Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
