> I've been working on a mata function, called qnewsolve, which finds
roots
> to nonlinear equations f using a quasi-newton's method.
I'd be interested in that. Please make it public once you're done.
> I'd like to
> also be able to pass additional arguments to f.How do I do this?
[...]
One solution would be to pass a pointer vector. Note that this requires
that f() knows what to do with the pointer vector. Example:
numeric matrix qnewsolve(..., pointer vector opt)
{
...
f0 = (*f)(x, opt)
..
}
where in f() the options are then used as *opt[1], *opt[2], etc. and you
could call qnewsolve() as
: s = qnewsolve(&f(), x, (&a1, &a2, ...))
See -help m2_pointers-
A related approach would be to use structures but I don't really see the
advantage of using structures in this situation.
> Also, is there an easy way to return x and rc separately instead of
> tacking rc to the end of x?
Yes. Use structures. See -help m2_struct-.
ben
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