Hi Alan,
You are right - it seems an almost trivial change, but it does have a large
effect. I will not be pursuing that for the coming release, as there is enough
on my plate already :). Of course, one comes across such issues when going
through all the interfaces, like I am doing now.
Regards,
Arjen
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 11:17 AM
> To: Arjen Markus
> Cc: Phil Rosenberg; plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Plplot-devel] Question about plbtime and plctime
>
> On 2015-01-20 09:28-0000 Arjen Markus wrote:
>
> > Hi Phil, Alan,
>
> > I like the idea of a PLTIMEFLT type, it expresses precisely what the
> variable is intended to be - it is not just a raw double. There would not be
> an actual
> incompatibility, just a refinement.
>
> I think it is an elaboration that won't be used very much (since hardly
> anyone uses a
> 32-bit version of PLplot). However, there is certainly precedent for
> introducing a new
> PLplot type for certain special kinds of arguments (e.g., PLUNICODE, PLBOOL)
> so I
> would go along with introducing a PLTIME (or PLTIMEFLT if you prefer that
> name)
> type if you want to do the implementation work. That work would be
> non-trivial since
> that new type has to be propagated to every language interface, all language
> versions of example 29, and our DocBook documentation, and has to be tested
> for
> the PLFLT = float case (since that is the only case where the distinction
> between
> PLTIME and PLFLT
> matters.)
>
> Alan
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