On 04/30/2013 12:56 PM, Ed Meyer wrote:
Not only is it desirable to have sparse and full matrices behave similarly, I believe the user should not need to be aware of which storage format is used so functions like eig() would work for either. The key is to use the C++ class system to have different implementations for each storage format.
I haven't been following this thread closely and I haven't thought much about the details but I have no objection to trying to do a better job with handling numel and dimensions/indices generally.
Is there some way we can get the better behavior in a minimally invasive way?
Even if it requires significant changes, maybe we should consider what the options are anyway.
What changes are needed to make octave_idx_type behave the way you way you want?
jwe