Hi,

I'm using v*q a lot, I don't mind the order changing, as long as the 
compiler would make me fix them all.

Can the intent of v*q or q*v be anything other than rotating a vector? 
If this is the only meaning, I don't see why we can't have both?

regards
jp

Robert Osfield wrote:
> On Nov 13, 2007 4:07 PM, Dorosky, Christopher G
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Just to clarify here, are we changing the way things work, or simply
>> adding another operation?
>> If we change the way things are working, hopefully it will be reflected
>> strongly in the release notes.
> 
> We are talking about changing the Vec * Quat methods to fix them.
> These methods aren't something that is widely used so I'd expect not
> much in the way of user relies upon these methods nor there currently
> broken implementation.  There is of course a danger of breaking user
> code that relies on it working the wrong way round.   One possibility
> might be to do an optional build that issue a compile error when ever
> a Vec * Quat is found so users can spot where they occur, or perhaps
> move the implementation into the .cpp and the emit an optional warning
> when this method is invoked.
> 
> Robert.
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