* Interface to GiNaC's light-weight expression handles. */
/*
- * GiNaC Copyright (C) 1999-2006 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
+ * GiNaC Copyright (C) 1999-2007 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
/** For construction of flyweights, etc. */
static library_init library_initializer;
-
class scalar_products;
class const_iterator;
class const_preorder_iterator;
class const_postorder_iterator;
-/** Lightweight wrapper for GiNaC's symbolic objects. Basically all it does is
- * to hold a pointer to the other objects, manage the reference counting and
- * provide methods for manipulation of these objects. (Some people call such
- * a thing a proxy class.) */
+/** Lightweight wrapper for GiNaC's symbolic objects. It holds a pointer to
+ * the other object in order to do garbage collection by the method of
+ * reference counting. I.e., it is a smart pointer. Also, the constructor
+ * ex::ex(const basic & other) calls the methods that do automatic
+ * evaluation. E.g., x-x turns automatically into 0. */
class ex {
friend class archive_node;
friend inline bool are_ex_trivially_equal(const ex &, const ex &);
// Make it possible to print exvectors and exmaps
std::ostream & operator<<(std::ostream & os, const exvector & e);
+std::ostream & operator<<(std::ostream & os, const exset & e);
std::ostream & operator<<(std::ostream & os, const exmap & e);
// wrapper functions around member functions