[Matrix-SIG] RE: (Matrix-SIG) Active arrays

Andrew Sterian steriana@gvsu.edu
Fri, 21 Jan 2000 14:40:16 -0500


> >-- Then some names for this `active' thingy.
> >
> >>typed
> >>keeptype
> >>hold
> >>holdtype
> >
> >How about 'promote', set to '0' if promotion to double is not wanted?
> 
> I was thinking 'dominant_type' because we want this type to attempt to
> control the
> final type of an expression.  Something that lends the idea 
> that this type
> is intended
> to control the type of the output.

Given that we want this matrix to be dominant, it is a dominant matrix
so perhaps this attribute should be called 'dominatrix'  :)

(Sorry...couldn't resist)

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