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Re: 1D minimization additions and doc comment
Jeff Spirko writes:
>
> I threw together functions for accessing the values of the function
> being minimized, which are stored in the minimizer structure. I
> also included a doc string for the functions (check this). It
> seemed cleaner to do it this way than to access the structure
> myself. A patch is attached, referenced to gsl-1.1.1.
> Also, the use of the terms x_lower, x_upper, and minimum in the docs
> caused me to look at the source code to make sure that minimum
> wasn't really f_minimum. Maybe it should be called x_min instead?
> Earlier in the Overview section these variables are referred to as
> a, b, and x, though I'd prefer the longer names for the code. Maybe
> there should be a sentence relating the two sets of names.
>
I've added the patch.
Thanks.
Brian Gough