Re: Display of strings by interpreter

[Rik]

On 10/23/2019 11:08 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 10/23/19 1:33 PM, Rik wrote:
>> On 10/23/2019 10:29 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:
>
>>> Yes, this seems like a good thing to do.  Also the feature request in
>>> #56974.  I would even say that we could consider displaying the type if
>>> it is double.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, it never made sense to me that Matlab would list the size and type for
>> all variables except double.  Be consistent, and tell the user when it is a
>> double.
>>
>>> Did you want to work on either of these?
>>>
>>
>> I'll take a look at the string display issue.
>
> OK, I'll look at the data type thing.
>
> In the interest of simplicity, I think we should just make these changes
> and not make them configurable.

I think that's fine.

--Rik