Hello,
The name "constant" has been kept to ensure backwards compatibililty.
But frankly, sometimes legacy really sucks !
To me, "constant" should be replaced everywhere by "double" to suppress
this confusion. The argument that it would break some toolboxes does not
hold : we already will have to recompile almost all binary gateways for
the next release of Scilab. I don't understand why toolboxes authors
would not be able to release a new version by just doing an easy
find/replace in their codes.
S.
Le 04/12/2019 à 02:07, Federico Miyara a écrit :
Dear all,
Regarding the question I've sent a few days earlier (see below), I
think the Variable Browser in some cases may be creating confusion
between variable types and number formats
For instance,
a = 1.22
creates a variable of type "constant", while its format is "double".
Regards,
Federico Miyara
On 29/11/2019 02:57, Federico Miyara wrote:
Dear all,
I'm trying to elucidate some details regarding types. The most basic
type, corresponding to real or complex decimal numbers (or vectors,
matrices and hypermatrices with this kind of components) is called
"constant" by the function typeof (and so listed in the documentation).
However, the variable browser lists them as "double".
This is somewhat confusing. It seems that "double" refers to the way
each individual component is encoded while constant may refer to the
fact that any array containing doubles is o type constant.
In the case of integers, for instance we have int64 as reported by
typeof, but in the Variable Browser it is listed a bit more in full
as "Integer 64". While this is also slightly inconsistent, it is not
to complain very much about.
In the case of rationals, typeof returns "rational" while the
Variable Browser callsit "r (Tlist)"
Cell array type is called "ce" by typeof but "Cell" in the Variabe
Browser
User-defined types in tlists and mlists are designed by the
user-defined type name by typeof, while the variable browser adds
"(Tlist)" or "(Mlist)"
Functions, libraries and impliit lists such as $ are not listed in
the variable bowser but are correctly reported by typeof
I wonder whether there is a reason for all this or it is actually an
issue that could be fixed in a future versions.
Thank you
Regards,
Federico Miyara
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