Re: [multi] Formal Review Begins

On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 8:21 PM Rainer Deyke via Boost <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On 3/8/26 15:08, Klemens Morgenstern via Boost wrote:
> > I think the names are off, e.g. `multi::array` behaves like a
> `std::vector`.
>
> It really doesn't.
>
> In math, a vector is a 1D array of coordinates, representing a magnitude
> and a direction.  std::vector is already poorly named, since it doesn't
> provide any of the mathematical operations of a real vector, but does at
> least keep the core concepts: it is an array, and it is 1D.
>
> A 2D array in math is a matrix, not a vector.
>
> In addition, multi::array doesn't provide the core features of
> std::vector, such as push_back or insert or erase.
>

Fair point, plus vector in computing sounds like SIMD to most non-C++
people these days.

How about `tensor` ?


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