From leech@cs.unc.edu (Jon Leech)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Vector classes (was Re: Semantics of friends vs. members)
Date: 31 Jan 92 03:10:28 GMT

In article <1228@taumet.com>, steve@taumet.com (Stephen D. Clamage) writes:
> In your specific case, you could overload * for dot product and % for
> cross product, or the other way around.  The precedences are right,
> and I don't think % would otherwise be used for vectors.

    I prefer ^ .

    BTW, if anyone wants a fairly complete set of 3 and 4 element
template vector/matrix classes (suitable for 3D graphics work) you can
get

    ftp.cs.unc.edu:pub/vector.tar.Z

    by anonymous FTP (*). No guarantees, no support, no copyright, and
virtually no documentation comes with this.

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