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Arne Plöse commented on MATH-643:
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OK I am comming from matlab|octave I want the operator ".+" implemented in
commons.math.
After the naming convention in octave this is a element by element addition.
Speaking: "Add d to each entry of v", this should be visible in the name of the
method like ebeAdd(double d)|ebeAdd(double[] d).
You, viewing it from perl, say: "Map the operator + with operand d to each
entry of v".
So, why do I map this, if I want a simple addition? - map is confusing here for
newcomers or people comming from matlab.
Seeing no other comments, this looks like a problem only to me.
So lets do not waste more time on this ether let it open or close it with "Wont
Fix".
Nevertheless I think usability suffers from this non consistent naming.
> Rename RealVector.map* to RealVector.ebe* (mapAdd(...) to ebeAdd(...) and
> mapAddToSelf(...) to ebeAddToSelf(...) for instance
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> Key: MATH-643
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-643
> Project: Commons Math
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 3.0
> Reporter: Arne Plöse
> Priority: Minor
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> I think the map* methods have historical names. Today I would prefer ebe as
> prefix like ebeMultiply(...).
> This would describe the methods better from a users view.
> If this is a valid issue, I could provide a patch.
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