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From: Raymond T. <to...@rt...> - 2002-11-01 18:41:01
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>>>>> "rif" == rif <ri...@MI...> writes:
rif> 1. The website http://matlisp.sourceforge.net/ mentions Cholesky
rif> factorizations in the very first paragraph. I agree that technically
rif> the paragraph is correct, because it mentions Cholesky as part of the
rif> "specialized and well documented linear algebra routines", but this is
rif> still somewhat misleading.
If you have suggestions on what to say, please send them here and I'll
try to get them incorporated.
rif> 2. (I'm willing to do this myself if someone gives me permissions)
rif> The installation instructions on the website are wrong, and it would
rif> be five minutes well spent to change them to tell people to read the
rif> INSTALL file in the distro.
Ok. I'll see if I can change this. Perhaps Tunc can do this. I've
never touched the matlisp home page so I don't know how.
rif> 3. What is the license on this software? Looking at the source, it
rif> appears to be (C) Regents of the University of California, with what
rif> reads sort of like a BSD license, but not quite.
Isn't this the standard BSD license? Tunc wrote that.
rif> 4. Is it a bug that (at least under CMUCL) mref is not setf-able? i.e.:
rif> * (setf (matrix-ref a 0 1) 3)
rif> 3.0d0
rif> * (setf (mref a 0 1) 4)
rif> Warning: This function is undefined:
rif> (SETF MREF)
Since this is defined in compat.lisp, I suspect it was originally
called mref, but was later changed to matrix-ref. I would say mref is
deprecated; use matrix-ref.
Ray
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