Re: [Help-glpk] Re: API friendliness Re: sensitivity analysis

[Nigel Galloway]

No, but if youi pass it using a void pointer or name it a widely used reserved 
word in Java; C++; or another language, then thats not too friendly.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Makhorin" <address@hidden>
> To: "Yingjie Lan" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: [Help-glpk] Re: API friendliness Re: sensitivity analysis
> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:44:42 +0300
> 
> 
> > Sure, Andrew, this is good stuff. But I am considering from
> > a little different angle: the API friendliness. Suppose
> > you need to get the sensitivity bounds for a variable or 
> > constraint, you will have to first find out its status
> > by glp_get_row_stat or glp_get_col_stat, then decide if
> > you should call the corresponding sensitivity analysis
> > API routine, or you should rather deal with the case yourself,
> > as the behavior of the sensitivity analysis API routine is
> > not defined in that case (undocumented at least).
> > But even though it is a trivial thing to implement, you could 
> > still need other API routines or data structures to make things 
> > right. This is not very API friendly, is it?
> > So if it is not two ugly, why not have those cases included
> > into the sensitivity analysis routines, just for the sake of
> > completeness and API friendliness?
> 
> The interpretation of sensitivity analysis results depends on the
> row/column status, so in any case you need "to first find out its
> status by glp_get_row_stat or glp_get_col_stat", don't you? For example,
> changing an active bound affects primal activities while changing an
> inactive bound does not.
> 
> As to completeness and friendliness, just a question. Imagine you have
> a triginometric function library which includes sin, cos, tan, etc. for
> angles measured in radians. Is the library incomplete and non-friendly,
> because it does not include functions for angles measured in grades?
> 
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