Re: GODataScalar, GODataVector and GODataMatrix removal

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow pyrshep ca>]

On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 18:25 +0200, Emmanuel Pacaud wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here's the patches that removes GODataScalar, GODataVector and
> GODataMatrix and moves their functionality into GOData.
>
> It could be possible to go further and also merge the GODataFooVal,
> GODataFooStr and GnmGOFooData classes into GODataVal, GODataStr and
> GnmGOData.
>
> Comments ?

While I can see that there is a point in moving the GODataScalar and
friends into GOData, I do not like the deletion of those classes, I
think they and their API should be retained (and possibly marked as
depreciated) so not to break applications unneccessarily.

I would also prefer that the changes to GODATA would then allow
arbitrary dimensional objects, not such be limited to dimension 2.

What is the point of negative n_columns and n_rows? If there is no
meaning to that then why are they changed to signed ints?

Andreas