7 Feb
2000
7 Feb
'00
7:22 p.m.
Travis says that I don't necessarily endorse his goals but in fact I do, strongly. If I understand right he intends to make a CVS branch for this experiment and that is fine with me. The only goal I didn't quite understand was: Addition of attributes so that different users can configure aspects of the math behavior, to their hearts content. In a world of reusable components the situation is complicated. I would not like to support a dot-product routine, for example, if the user could turn off any double precision behind my back. My needs for precision are local to my algorithm.