Re: Adding a generic mathematical library

[Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>]

> Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2024 at 12:29 PM
> From: "Emanuel Berg" <incal@dataswamp.org>
> To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Adding a generic mathematical library
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> Christopher Dimech wrote:
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> > You do not need a unified way to representing a vector.
> > You only need the tool to work conveniently with vectors.
> > Having two or three ways to do it, is not a bad thing,
> > unless the number of ways are excessive.
>
> For the purpose of the library normalizing that can be
> a good idea.
>
> It is not a bad thing to have several ways to do things, but
> in Lisp they also tend to do several things each depending on
> context. So it is a m*n curve. A lot of Lisp project gets out
> of hand with complexity, this is perhaps not the main reason
> but it is one of them.

If things get out of hand, it is a problem.

> So if one can stick to a subset methods and a consistent style
> at least for one file it is good :)

Depends on what parts need work.  Do not plan to solve all that in one go.

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