Re: Generic "expression template" library?

From:
James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 9 Feb 2009 00:59:30 -0800 (PST)
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On Feb 8, 8:56 am, Daniel Pitts
<newsgroup.spamfil...@virtualinfinity.net> wrote:

Are there any popular expression template libraries that
support all/most arithmetic operators, and that allow
"compound" expressions to be created?

for example...
template<typename A, typename B>
struct Multiply;
template<typename A, typename B>
struct Add;

x = Multiply<double, double>(1,3) + 4;

where x might be of type Add<Multiply<double, double>, int>.

I was thinking of creating my own, but if there is an existing
one that handles all the odd cases (such as avoiding infinite
recursion), all the better.


http://www.oonumerics.org/blitz/? I'm not too familiar with
this library, as I don't work in numerical processing, but from
what I understand, it is the reference for this sort of thing.
(The original author, Todd Veldhuizen, is one of the inventors
of template metaprogramming.)

I do think, however, that it expects overloaded operators,
rather than named obejcts (like Multiply).

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