New Functions

In a package like SLALIB it is difficult to know how far to go. Is it enough to provide the primitive operations, or should more complicated functions be packaged? Is it worth encroaching on specialist areas, where individual experts have all written their own software already? To what extent should CPU efficiency be an issue? How much support of different numerical precisions is required? And so on.

In practice, almost all the routines in SLALIB are there because they were needed for some specific application, and this is likely to remain the pattern for any enhancements in the future. Suggestions for additional SLALIB routines should be addressed to the author.