Re: [Quantlib-dev] Arbitrary Solvers?

[Luigi B. <lui...@gm...>]

Hi,
    you can add a template overload of CashFlows::yield. Since it would
take an instance of the solver, it wouldn't cause an ambiguity with the
existing method.

Luigi


On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 4:24 PM Daniel Hrabovcak <d.h...@tm...>
wrote:

> Hello All,
>
>
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> Would it be possible to genericize CashFlows::yield (and by extension
> BondFunctions::yield) to take an arbitrary solver, instead of the default
> NewtonSafe solver?
>
>
>
> Using a template parameter with a default value would have been backwards
> compatible but alas, using default template values is not possible
> pre-C++11 and QuantLib does not currently support dynamic dispatch for
> solvers so it cannot be passed into the function either.
>
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> Are there any possibilities of creating a patch to use an arbitrary solver
> at runtime? I would be happy to code it up.
>
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>
> Thanks,
>
> DH
>
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