[SciPy-dev] Proposal for more generic optimizers (posted before on scipy-user)

[Alan G Isaac]

On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Matthieu Brucher apparently wrote: 
> The purpose of this list was to not make a test inside the 
> iteration loop.  In the first idea I had, a test was made 
> to know if the parameters were to be saved or not. I'm 
> balanced between the two solutions. 

You can skip a test inside the loop
and use a default method that is always called.

        def record_history(self,etcetera):
                pass

Allow alternative functions to be passed by the user as part 
of the Optimizer object initialization so that overriding is 
not necessary.

Of course the 'etcetera' part is important ...  I can 
imagine wanting lots of pieces of the history.

Cheers,
Alan Isaac