[Scilab-users] slight bug in exists()

[Antoine Monmayrant]

Hello Federico,

I agree with you that this would make more sense.
Could such a change be implemented for a point release?
I assume it would introduce some bugs in existing code relying on the 
(unusual) double output...

Antoine

On 09/02/2021 03:24, Federico Miyara wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I had already mentioned this a while ago 
> (http://mailinglists.scilab.org/Scilab-users-exists-yields-double-tt4039853.html), 
> but as I guess we are in the update season, it would be good 
> opportunity to fix this (if there isn't strong opposition, or a good 
> reason for this behavior, of course).
>
> I'm referring to the fact that the function exists() should by nature 
> yield a Boolean result such as T or F. However, it yields 1 or 0. 
> While this is not a big deal, similar functions performing a binary 
> decision on their arguments, such as isreal(), isvector(), isfile() 
> and many others, yield Boolean results.
>
> Regards,
>
> Federico Miyara
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