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[bug-gsl] Re: Scalars are required to be double for all gsl_*_scale, gsl_*_add_constant regardless of element type (2008-11-17)

From: Brian Gough <bjg@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Scalars are required to be double for all gsl_*_scale, gsl_*_add_constant regardless of element type
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:15:02 +0000
To: "Liam Healy" <lnp@......................>
Cc: bug-gsl@gnu.org

At Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:03:04 -0500,
Liam Healy wrote:
> So am I to infer that the use of doubles for the scalar regardless of
> the element type of the vector or matrix is intentional?

Yes. It's a bit ugly but seemed simpler than handling all the
signed/unsigned integer cases separately.