Affine transforms - matrix algebra

[Pavel Safrata]

On 24.7.2012 12:57, Martin Desruisseaux wrote:
> Le 24/07/12 12:44, Pavel Safrata a écrit :
>> The MAT was introduced because there is no obvious choice of the 
>> default type. The 4x4 type forces you to always add four useless 
>> values to your array (that have no corresponding members in the class 
>> you are constructing). I agree that the described problem may occur. 
>> So I think I'd rather get rid of the simple methods completely and 
>> provide only the ones using MAT. We can on the other hand provide two 
>> variants, one with the beginIndex, second without it.
>
> I agree that removing the simple methods would be safer. About the 
> variants without 'beginIndex', is it really worth to duplicate maybe 4 
> methods just for saving "0," in method calls that are expected to be 
> less frequent than other methods (translate, transform, etc.)?
>

Right, probably not.
Thanks,
Pavel

> Martin
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