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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

Martin Sandve Alnæs wrote:
> 2008/4/12, Garth N. Wells <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >  Martin Sandve Alnæs wrote:
> >
> > > Circular dependencies... But we could put templated functions in Generic*.
> > >
> > > F.ex.:
> > > Foo & v = vector_cast<Foo>(genericvector);
> > >
> > > Templates must be renamed in the python interface though.
> >  I've added template functions to GenericTensor. Take a look.
> >
> >  Garth
>
>
> Looks good, but I'm not sure about all details around templated member
> functions. But I think they should return references. Then we'll have:
>
> uBlasVector & v = gv.down_cast<uBlasVector>();
> ublas_vector & u = gv.down_cast<uBlasVector>()->vec();

References would be nicer to work with, so that's fine by me.

Garth