On 10/25/12 2:34 PM, Roy Stogner wrote: > > > On Thu, 25 Oct 2012, Boyce Griffith wrote: > >> Is it even possible to have the shim class use operator[] for >> multidimensional indexing ([i][j])? I don't know how you setup an >> equivalent to "operator[][]". (Such a thing doesn't exist in C++, >> does it?) > > You make your operator[](i) return a temporary of a different class > whose sole reason for existing is "store the number i, and return > element (i,j) from my operator[](j)". It's not trivial to implement > but it's actually not relatively far down the crazy-C++-idioms rabbit > hole, and IIRC a half-decent compiler can still manage to inline it > down to a zero-cost shim.
Thinking solely in terms of how this would show up in Doxygen --- it seems like operator() would be much more easy to understand. How about providing operator[] and "operator[][]" for a release but deprecating their use? -- Boyce ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ Libmesh-devel mailing list Libmesh-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-devel
