Re: [ANN] Numeric Lua 0.3

[Luis Carvalho <lexcarvalho@...>]

> Most of it is very nice.  I had great trouble with LuaRocks and could 
> not get LuaHelp to see the NumLua help files, so I wrote the Lua script 
> below, which does not need LuaHelp.

Thanks again for the report and the script. Unfortunately, as you noted, it
relies on `package.searchpath`. My `numlua` is just an alias to
`lua -lluarocks.loader -lnumlua.seeall`. :)
 
> The following is not so nice:
> 
> 1. x:fft() is only allowed when x is already complex.
> 
> > x=matrix{1,2,3}
> > =x:fft()
> stdin:1: calling 'fft' on bad self
> > y=matrix({1,2,3},true)
> > =y:fft():pretty()
>              6+0i   -1.5+0.866025i   -1.5-0.866025i

Yes, that's stated in the docs as well. But in Lua 5.1 I still get

> x=matrix{1,2,3}
> = x:fft()
stdin:1: calling 'fft' on bad self (complex matrix expected)
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'fft'
        stdin:1: in main chunk
        [C]: ?
> = x:complex():fft()
             6+0i   -1.5+0.866025i   -1.5-0.866025i

so there is a warning.

> 2. But one can't use `complex` to convert a real matrix to complex.
> Worse, you're not warned about it.
> 
> > =complex(x)
> 0+0i

You can use `matrix.complex` for that (or `mcomplex` if using `seeall`).
I've fixed the __call method for complex to actually check its argument
instead of just converting it to a number:

> = complex(x)
stdin:1: bad argument #1 to 'complex' (number or complex expected, got userdata)
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'complex'
        stdin:1: in main chunk
        [C]: ?
> = mcomplex(x)
   1+0i   2+0i   3+0i

Cheers,
Luis

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