I don't claim that an 'end-user' has much business. Just a class-that-extends. I'll all for your proposed names. Watch out for 'zero' if the 'default' value is in fact configurable.
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Sean Owen<sro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah exactly, not entirely clear why the *caller* should care about > this; the class should take care of stuff like that. > > At least I propose a rename of size() to getNumNonzeroElements() or > somesuch, and rename of cardinality() to size(). > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Benson Margulies<bimargul...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Lets say you have an algorithm in which a vector starts out sparse, >> but gradually fills in. At some point, you want to give up and switch >> to an ordinary vector. This came up in Brown and DiPietro's >> entropy-based bigram information word clustering algorithm, and I >> think it could come up elsewhere. >> >> A more complex class based on what you're doing here would use this >> value to decide when to give up and use a dense vector instead. >
