/*

* Example program illustrating type conversion. Template functions will n

* not do automatic conversion, but Math.h++ provides explicit casting between

* collection classes of different datatypes.

*/

 

// Include the RWMathVec class header files.

 

#include <rw/math/mathvec.h>

#include <iostream>

 

// Initial data for the vectors.

double adata[] = {1., 3., -2., -6., 7.};

int idata[] = {2, 6, -4, 2, 1};

 

int main()

{

// Construct the vectors V and iV from the

// arrays defined above.

 

RWMathVec<double> V(adata, 5);

RWMathVec<int> iV(idata, 5);

 

/*

* Output the dot product of the two vectors.

* Note that the function dot has prototype

* template<class T> dot(RWMathVec<T>&, RWMathVec<T>&),

* so to use dot, the RWMathVec<int> is cast to

* RWMathVec<double> to get a match.

*/

RWMathVec<double> temp = RWConvertMathVec<int,double>(iV);

std::cout << dot (V, RWConvertMathVec<int,double>(iV));

}

 

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