Voting For std.experimental.ndslice

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Dec 28 14:06:45 PST 2015


On 12/28/2015 04:43 PM, Robert burner Schadek wrote:
> On Monday, 28 December 2015 at 18:39:47 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote:
>> Have you read the latest changes?
>> http://forum.dlang.org/post/djgkkrdufycyjhpmafse@forum.dlang.org
>>
>
> I have.
>
> The problem with the doc is that is describes what it can be used for,
> but it does not describe what it is.
>
> It is like saying: "It brings you from point A to point B."
> Instead you should say it is a car. And a car is self moving object ....
>
> The first few sentences:
> """
> The package is designed for applications such as linear algebra, physics
> and statistics. It would be well suited to creating machine learning and
> image processing algorithms, but should also be general enough for use
> anywhere with homogeneously-typed multidimensional data.
> """
> does not say what it is.
>
> Should be something, as far as I understand the package, like:
>
> """
> This package provides a multidimensional array implementation, suited
> for scientific computing. Additionally, many functions for iteration,
> accessing and manipulation are given. ....
> """

FWIW I noticed that too. It took me a while to figure what the thing 
really is. -- Andrei


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