There are two major additions in this commit. The first is a new storage
trait, `ReshapableStorage`, that can be implemented for storage types
that can be reshaped in-place. I have implemented this for both the
`ArrayStorage` and `VecStorage` types, as they are the most common and
they are just interpretations of a flat list.
The second is a `Matrix::reshape_generic` method that allows matrices to
be in-place reshaped provided that the underlying storage can handle it.
In practice, this means that the standard matrix types (`MatrixMN` and
`DMatrix`) can be resized to any size that has the same element count.
Resizing between array and vector storage is not implemented due to
`Storage` only being implemented for `VecStorage` variants where at
least one dimension is `Dynamic`.
Additionally, only the generic reshape function is added as it can be a
basis for other reshaping functions (see the resizing functions) and I
am not particularly in the mood to implement a variety of reshaping
methods.
Previously, most dimension mismatch asserts used raw `assert!` and did
not include the mismatching dimensions in the panic message. When using
dynamic matrices, this led to somewhat-opaque panics such as:
```rust
let m1 = DMatrix::<f32>::zeros(2, 3);
let m2 = DMatrix::<f32>::zeros(5, 10);
m1 + m2 // panic: Matrix addition/subtraction dimensions mismatch.
```
This patch adds dimension information in the panic messages wherever
doing so did not add additional bounds checks, mostly by simply changing
`assert!(a == b, ...)` cases to `assert_eq!`. After:
```rust
// panic: assertion failed: `(left == right)`
// left: `(2, 3)`,
// right: `(5, 10)`: Matrix addition/subtraction dimensions mismatch.
```
Note that the `gemv` and `ger` were not updated, as they are called from
within other functions on subset matricies -- e.g., `gemv` is called
from `gemm` which is called from `mul_to` . Including dimension
information in the `gemv` panic messages would be confusing to
`mul` / `mul_to` users, because it would include dimensions of the column
vectors that `gemm` passes to `gemv` rather than of the original `mul`
arguments. A fix would be to add bounds checks to `mul_to`, but that may
have performance and redundancy implications, so is left to another
patch.
Extend<N> was already implemented, but nalgebra vectors/matrices give
iterators that give &N, not N, so implementing Extend<&N> as well makes
it easier to use.
It seems common practice to do so: The standard library's Vec also
implments Extend for both T and &T.
