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From: Ari.Huttunen@hut.fi (Ari Juhani Huttunen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Matrix Class Libraries
Message-ID: <ARI.HUTTUNEN.91Mar18173446@hydroman.hut.fi>
Date: 18 Mar 91 16:34:45 GMT
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In-Reply-To: bjaspan@athena.mit.edu's message of 18 Mar 91 02:55:39 GMT

In article <1991Mar18.025539.18998@athena.mit.edu> bjaspan@athena.mit.edu (Barr3y Jaspan) writes:

>class Matrix {
    ...
>     inline double& operator()(int, int) const;
    ...
>};

I think this points out one problem in C++. You really should be able to
say:
      inline double& operator[][](int, int) const;

The problem isn't very serious, but it just isn't natural to access array
members using notation  array(x,y), but array[x][y].
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Ari Huttunen, email: Ari.Huttunen@hut.fi, phone: 90-7285944