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From: "Jason R. Green" <jg525@cam.ac.uk>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Guile and GSL
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 18:50:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <debdc5451003071050g6736ccaxde752f376a28d2cf@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ocj0qcha.fsf@gnu.org>

Hi,

> I think having Guile bindings to GSL would be great.  Which line of
> development are you referring to?

Oh, I was referring to the development of Guile bindings for GSL, in general.

> FWIW, I think it would be great if these bindings were eventually
> integrated in the GSL package proper.  To that end, you should make sure
> to follow the GNU Coding Standards, to provide good test coverage and
> documentation, and to make sure copyright can be assigned to the FSF.

Thanks for your suggestions. I will do.

> I suppose SRFI-4 homogeneous numeric vectors[*] would be a good fit for
> GSL vectors and matrices, and you wouldn’t need to create any new SMOB
> type.  That said, I’m sure you know GSL much better than me.  :-)

The SRFI-4 homogeneous numeric vectors do seem to be designed for this
purpose. My SMOB approach was entirely because of my familiarity with
GSL's interface and my unfamiliarity with Guile.

Thanks!
Jason




  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-07 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-07 12:38 Guile and GSL Jason R. Green
2010-03-07 17:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-03-07 18:50   ` Jason R. Green [this message]
2010-03-07 19:41 ` Mike Gran
2010-03-07 20:05   ` Jason R. Green
2010-03-10 15:21 ` Jason R. Green
2010-03-10 16:25   ` Ludovic Courtès

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