[GiNaC-list] extending the symbol

[Alexei Sheplyakov]

Hello,

On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 07:09:59PM -0400, Krishna Mohan Gundu wrote:

> I am adding a light weight support for vector algebra in ginac. I am
> aware that it can be done through Clifford algebra, but the output is
> almost incomprehensible to debug.

I don't quite understand what is exactly wrong. Could you elaborate, please?

> My problem is this. When a request
> like inner_product(lhs, rhs) is made, where one of lhs and rhs is not
> a vector, I would like to replace the inner_product with a regular
> product. How can I achieve this?

if (typeid(ex_to<basic>(lhs)) != typeid(your_class)) {
	// do the replacement
} else if (typeid(ex_to<basic>(rhs)) != typeid(your_class)) {
	// same here
} else {
	// do something nontrivial
}

> 
> I am planning to do it as follows
> 1) extend a symbol to a vector

I don't think it's a good idea. Symbol is something simple and in a sense
"atomic". Also it's quite performance and memory critical. You'd better
use the clifford class.

Best regards,
	Alexei

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