[jira] [Commented] (MATH-643) Rename RealVector.map* to RealVector.ebe* (mapAdd(...) to ebeAdd(...) and mapAddToSelf(...) to ebeAddToSelf(...) for instance

["Thomas Neidhart (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Thomas Neidhart commented on MATH-643:
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element-by-element is simply the wrong term for this kind of operation.

The referenced page of octave also makes the distinction between element-by-element operations and overloaded operations with different operands.

The prefix map comes from the functional world and is well understood imho.

As we have not deprecated anything in 3.x and the proposal is not very convincing for me, I propose to close it finally as won't fix.

> Rename RealVector.map* to RealVector.ebe* (mapAdd(...) to ebeAdd(...) and mapAddToSelf(...) to ebeAddToSelf(...) for instance
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>                 Key: MATH-643
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-643
>             Project: Commons Math
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Arne Plöse
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 4.0
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> I think the map* methods have historical names. Today I would prefer ebe as prefix like ebeMultiply(...).
> This would describe the methods better from a users view.
> If this is a valid issue, I could provide a patch.



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