move rotate_left() function away from the public header.

[ginac.git] / ginac / ex.h

diff --git a/ginac/ex.h b/ginac/ex.h
index d0892362cb36137bd27b1d228efdfdad5f3b3b40..336bb14f1c1c51640988515e3c7a647d90b9ffdf 100644 (file)
--- a/ginac/ex.h
+++ b/ginac/ex.h
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  *  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
@@ -52,17 +52,17 @@ private:
 /** 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 &);
@@ -205,6 +205,7 @@ public:
        int compare(const ex & other) const;
        bool is_equal(const ex & other) const;
        bool is_zero() const { extern const ex _ex0; return is_equal(_ex0); }
+       bool is_zero_matrix() const;
        
        // symmetry
        ex symmetrize() const;
@@ -677,6 +678,11 @@ struct ex_swap : public std::binary_function<ex, ex, void> {
        void operator() (ex &lh, ex &rh) const { lh.swap(rh); }
 };
 
+// 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
 inline size_t nops(const ex & thisex)
 { return thisex.nops(); }