From: Brian Gough <bjg@gnu.org>
To: M Joonas Pihlaja <jpihlaja@cc.helsinki.fi>
Cc: gsl-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Legendre polynomial documentation
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:30:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m363ji9xrp.wl%bjg@network-theory.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.61.0902090649430.467394@sirppi.helsinki.fi>
At Mon, 9 Feb 2009 07:38:21 +0200 (EET),
M Joonas Pihlaja wrote:
> 1) The _array function documentation uses the absolute value |m|
> as the lower bound of the array indices yet also specifies m
> >= 0. Why the absolute value if negative m aren't allowed after
> all?
Although it's not implemented, I expect there was an intention to
extend the function to include negative m at some point.
> 2) The docs say the _deriv_array functions compute "optionally
> their derivatives", which made me think that the
> result_deriv_array parameter could be passed in as NULL if one
> didn't need the derivatives. Turns out that's not what it meant.
> :) The phrasing could be a little bit more explicit IMHO.
Ok, I've changed the wording to avoid the confusion.
--
Brian Gough
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2009-02-09 5:38 M Joonas Pihlaja
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