This file records noteworthy changes.
-0.8.0 (<date>)
+0.8.0 (24 March 2001)
* Complete revamp of indexed objects. Instead of multiple classes for
indexed things and their indices there is now only one "indexed" class
and two types of indices: "idx" for simple indices and "varidx" for
indices with variance. There are predefined delta, epsilon and metric
tensors, and a function simplify_indexed() that performs canonicalization
- and dummy index summations.
+ and dummy index summations. Matrix objects can be indexed for doing simple
+ linear algebra.
* Added an option "expand_indexed" to expand() to perform expansion of
indexed objects like (a+b).i -> a.i + b.i
* Renamed get_indices() to get_free_indices(), which no longer returns
dummy indices and checks the consistency of indices in sums.
* sqrfree() factorization fixed and improved syntactically.
* subs() works on matrices.
+* Matrices can be constructed from flat list of elements; diagonal matrices
+ can be constructed from list of diagonal elements with diag_matrix().
+* Fixed memory leak in expand().
+* Operator% for objects of class ncmul has gone. Use operator* now for that
+ case too, which is much more natural.
0.7.3 (28 February 2001)
* Several bugfixes and minor performance tunings.