Oct. 27, 2014
4:58 p.m.
On 27/10/14 13:14, Neal Becker wrote:
The multi-dimensional c++ stuff is interesting (about time!)
http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2014/n3851.pdf
OMG, that API is about as awful as it gets. Obviously it is written by two computer scientists who do not understand what scientific and technical computing actually needs. There is a reason why many scientists still prefer Fortran to C++, and I think this proposal shows us why. An API like that will never be suitable for implementing complex numerical alorithms. It will fail horribly because it is *not readable*. I have no doubt it will be accepted though, because the C++ standards committee tends to accept unusable things. Sturla