Re: nnz and char

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 31-Jan-2006, David Bateman wrote:
>
> | John W. Eaton wrote:
> |
> | > OK, then how about capacity, since we already have that?  From 
> Sparse.h:
> | >
> | >   // Note that capacity and nnz are the amount of storage for 
> non-zero
> | >   // elements, while nonzero is the actual number of non-zero terms
> | >   octave_idx_type capacity (void) const { return rep->length (); }
> | >   octave_idx_type nnz (void) const { return capacity (); }
> | >
> | >
> | > jwe
> |
> | Seems fine, in this case delete the old nnz definition...
>
> Now I see that the user-level nzmax function calls capacity if it is
> given a sparse matrix object, and has this comment:
>
>       // XXX FIXME XXX should nnz be a method of octave_base_value
>       // so that the below can be replaced with "retval = (double)
>       // (args(0).nz ());"
>
> (this is referring to the original nnz function).  So maybe it would
> be better to use the name nzmax instead of capacity.  Unless you
> object, I will make that change, and add nzmax to the octave_value
> class.
Ok, with me, that will simplify this function as well...

D.

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