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At Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:35:59 +0300,
Tuomo Keskitalo wrote:
> I'd like to know how the developers of GSL ended up using gsl_block 
> within gsl_vector and gsl_matrix. Why is it needed?

The block type corresponds to the C++ valarray class (the gsl_block
struct members are the same as those in C++ valarrays).  The idea was
that it would simplify interoperability with C++.

-- 
Brian Gough