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<p>Hello,</p>
<p>The name "constant" has been kept to ensure backwards
compatibililty. But frankly, sometimes legacy really sucks !<br>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>S.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 04/12/2019 à 02:07, Federico Miyara
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Dear all, <br>
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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 </font><br>
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For instance, <br>
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a = 1.22<br>
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creates a variable of type "constant", while its format is
"double".<br>
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Regards,<br>
<br>
Federico Miyara<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 29/11/2019 02:57, Federico Miyara
wrote:<br>
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<font face="Courier New">Dear all,<br>
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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). <br>
<br>
However, the variable browser lists them as "double".<br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
In the case of rationals, typeof returns "rational" while the
Variable Browser callsit "r (Tlist)"<br>
<br>
Cell array type is called "ce" by typeof but "Cell" in the
Variabe Browser<br>
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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)"<br>
<br>
Functions, libraries and impliit lists such as $ are not
listed in the variable bowser but are correctly reported by
typeof<br>
<br>
I wonder whether there is a reason for all this or it is
actually an issue that could be fixed in a future versions.<br>
<br>
Thank you<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Federico Miyara<br>
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