Re: gtrans_i ??

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 01:39:22AM +0200, Philippe Elbaz-Vincent wrote:
> Hi (again),
> 
> while recompiling several programs against 2.2.11 (CHANGES-1.1291),
> I was surprised to see an 
> undefined reference to `gtrans_i'
> 
> grep -n trans_i CHANGES
> 136:   13- rename gtrans_i -> dummytrans, concatsp -> dummyconcat.
> 
> But in the source tree I didn't find any ref to dummytrans (and neither 
> gtrans_i).

It has finally been renamed to shallowtrans. I will update the CHANGES
file.

> What is the motivation behind this changes and what happened to the 
> function ?

We try to use more explicit name for functions and documented them.
gtrans_i was not documented, but shallowtrans is:

\fun{GEN}{shallowtrans}{GEN x} returns the transpose of $x$,
\emph{without} copying its components, i.~e.,~it returns a \kbd{GEN}
whose components are (physically) the components of $x$. This is the
internal function underlying \tet{gtrans}.

Cheers,
Bill.