distance_functions.h

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/*    This file is part of the Gudhi Library. The Gudhi library 
 *    (Geometric Understanding in Higher Dimensions) is a generic C++ 
 *    library for computational topology.
 *
 *    Author(s):       Clément Maria
 *
 *    Copyright (C) 2014  INRIA
 *
 *    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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 *    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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 */

#ifndef DISTANCE_FUNCTIONS_H_
#define DISTANCE_FUNCTIONS_H_

#include <cmath>  // for std::sqrt
#include <type_traits>  // for std::decay
#include <iterator>  // for std::begin, std::end

namespace Gudhi {

class Euclidean_distance {
 public:
  template< typename Point >
  auto operator()(const Point& p1, const Point& p2) const -> typename std::decay<decltype(*std::begin(p1))>::type {
    auto it1 = p1.begin();
    auto it2 = p2.begin();
    typename Point::value_type dist = 0.;
    for (; it1 != p1.end(); ++it1, ++it2) {
      typename Point::value_type tmp = (*it1) - (*it2);
      dist += tmp*tmp;
    }
    return std::sqrt(dist);
  }
};

}  // namespace Gudhi

#endif  // DISTANCE_FUNCTIONS_H_