Re: [Glsdk-devel] [GLM] open questions with the matrix api

[Jason M. <ko...@gm...>]

Henri Häkkinen wrote:
> Another open issues has came up:
>
> Do you think we should allow something like this:
>
> glmMatInverse2f (&mat, &mat);
> glmMatTranspose2f (&mat, &mat);
> glmVecAdd2f (&vec, &vec, &vec);
>
> For some functions, this add some additional processing since it needs 
> to store temporary values of matrix members before performing an 
> operation, such as:
>
> ...
>
> My proposal is that we allow glmMatInverse2f (&mat, &mat) and live 
> with the additional overhead. -Self funcs may still be included for 
> convenience (at some later GLM versions).
Agreed. It adheres to the principle of least surprise. The less-careful 
user will expect to be able to pass the same parameter, or outputs as 
inputs, and we should allow it.