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<p>
Sometimes what you really want to do is bring all the special functions,
or all the distributions into a specific namespace-scope, along with a
specific policy to use with them. There are two macros defined to assist
with that:
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<pre class="programlisting"><span class="identifier">BOOST_MATH_DECLARE_SPECIAL_FUNCTIONS</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">Policy</span><span class="special">)</span>
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and:
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<pre class="programlisting"><span class="identifier">BOOST_MATH_DECLARE_DISTRIBUTIONS</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">Type</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">Policy</span><span class="special">)</span>
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You can use either of these macros after including any special function
or distribution header. For example:
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<pre class="programlisting"><span class="preprocessor">#include</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">math</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">special_functions</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">gamma</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">hpp</span><span class="special">></span>
<span class="keyword">namespace</span> <span class="identifier">myspace</span><span class="special">{</span>
<span class="keyword">using</span> <span class="keyword">namespace</span> <span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">math</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">policies</span><span class="special">;</span>
<span class="comment">// Define a policy that does not throw on overflow:
</span><span class="keyword">typedef</span> <span class="identifier">policy</span><span class="special"><</span><span class="identifier">overflow_error</span><span class="special"><</span><span class="identifier">errno_on_error</span><span class="special">></span> <span class="special">></span> <span class="identifier">my_policy</span><span class="special">;</span>
<span class="comment">// Define the special functions in this scope to use the policy:
</span><span class="identifier">BOOST_MATH_DECLARE_SPECIAL_FUNCTIONS</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">my_policy</span><span class="special">)</span>
<span class="special">}</span>
<span class="comment">//
</span><span class="comment">// Now we can use myspace::tgamma etc.
</span><span class="comment">// They will automatically use "my_policy":
</span><span class="comment">//
</span><span class="keyword">double</span> <span class="identifier">t</span> <span class="special">=</span> <span class="identifier">myspace</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">tgamma</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="number">30.0</span><span class="special">);</span> <span class="comment">// will not throw on overflow
</span>
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<p>
In this example, using BOOST_MATH_DECLARE_SPECIAL_FUNCTIONS results in
a set of thin inline forwarding functions being defined:
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<pre class="programlisting"><span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">></span>
<span class="keyword">inline</span> <span class="identifier">T</span> <span class="identifier">tgamma</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">T</span> <span class="identifier">a</span><span class="special">){</span> <span class="keyword">return</span> <span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">math</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">tgamma</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">a</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">mypolicy</span><span class="special">());</span> <span class="special">}</span>
<span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">></span>
<span class="keyword">inline</span> <span class="identifier">T</span> <span class="identifier">lgamma</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">T</span> <span class="identifier">a</span><span class="special">)</span> <span class="special">(</span> <span class="keyword">return</span> <span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">math</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">lgamma</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">a</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">mypolicy</span><span class="special">());</span> <span class="special">}</span>
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and so on. Note that while a forwarding function is defined for all the
special functions, however, unless you include the specific header for
the special function you use (or boost/math/special_functions.hpp to include
everything), you will get linker errors from functions that are forward
declared, but not defined.
</p>
<p>
We can do the same thing with the distributions, but this time we need
to specify the floating-point type to use:
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</p>
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</p>
<pre class="programlisting"><span class="preprocessor">#include</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">math</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">distributions</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">cauchy</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">hpp</span><span class="special">></span>
<span class="keyword">namespace</span> <span class="identifier">myspace</span><span class="special">{</span>
<span class="keyword">using</span> <span class="keyword">namespace</span> <span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">math</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">policies</span><span class="special">;</span>
<span class="comment">// Define a policy to use, in this case we want all the distribution
</span><span class="comment">// accessor functions to compile, even if they are mathematically
</span><span class="comment">// undefined:
</span><span class="keyword">typedef</span> <span class="identifier">policy</span><span class="special"><</span><span class="identifier">assert_undefined</span><span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">false</span><span class="special">></span> <span class="special">></span> <span class="identifier">my_policy</span><span class="special">;</span>
<span class="identifier">BOOST_MATH_DECLARE_DISTRIBUTIONS</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="keyword">double</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">my_policy</span><span class="special">)</span>
<span class="special">}</span>
<span class="comment">// Now we can use myspace::cauchy etc, which will use policy
</span><span class="comment">// myspace::mypolicy:
</span><span class="comment">//
</span><span class="comment">// This compiles but raises a domain error at runtime:
</span><span class="comment">//
</span><span class="keyword">void</span> <span class="identifier">test_cauchy</span><span class="special">()</span>
<span class="special">{</span>
<span class="keyword">try</span>
<span class="special">{</span>
<span class="keyword">double</span> <span class="identifier">d</span> <span class="special">=</span> <span class="identifier">mean</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">myspace</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">cauchy</span><span class="special">());</span>
<span class="special">}</span>
<span class="keyword">catch</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="identifier">std</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">domain_error</span><span class="special">&</span> <span class="identifier">e</span><span class="special">)</span>
<span class="special">{</span>
<span class="identifier">std</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">cout</span> <span class="special"><<</span> <span class="identifier">e</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">what</span><span class="special">()</span> <span class="special"><<</span> <span class="identifier">std</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">endl</span><span class="special">;</span>
<span class="special">}</span>
<span class="special">}</span>
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<p>
In this example the result of BOOST_MATH_DECLARE_DISTRIBUTIONS is to declare
a typedef for each distribution like this:
</p>
<pre class="programlisting"><span class="keyword">typedef</span> <span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">math</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">cauchy_distribution</span><span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">double</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">my_policy</span><span class="special">></span> <span class="identifier">cauchy</span><span class="special">;</span>
<span class="identifier">tyepdef</span> <span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">math</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">gamma_distribution</span><span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">double</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">my_policy</span><span class="special">></span> <span class="identifier">gamma</span><span class="special">;</span>
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and so on. The name given to each typedef is the name of the distribution
with the "_distribution" suffix removed.
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