testing for uint8: a solution

[Brian Blais]

Hello,

I found the following solution for testing whether a variable is uint8 
(a question I had asked some time ago).  Is there anything wrong with 
using this solution?

int is_uint8(const octave_value &val) {

  if ((val.type_id() == octave_uint8_matrix::static_type_id()) ||
      (val.type_id () == octave_uint8_scalar::static_type_id())) {
    return(1);
  } else {
    return(0);
  }

}


        thanks,

                        bb

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