#include <Eigen/Core> USING_PART_OF_NAMESPACE_EIGEN using namespace std; template<typename Derived> const Eigen::Eval<Eigen::Transpose<Derived> > evaluatedTranspose(const MatrixBase<Derived>& m) { return m.transpose().eval(); } int main(int, char**) { Matrix2f M = Matrix2f::random(); Matrix2f m; m = M; cout << "Here is the matrix m:" << endl << m << endl; cout << "Now we want to replace m by its own transpose." << endl; cout << "If we do m = m.transpose(), then m becomes:" << endl; m = m.transpose(); cout << m << endl << "which is wrong!" << endl; cout << "Now let us instead do m = evaluatedTranspose(m). Then m becomes" << endl; m = M; m = evaluatedTranspose(m); cout << m << endl << "which is right." << endl; return 0; }