Re: .oct-files/ library-wrapper

[John W. Eaton]

On 19-Jan-2001, Ben Sapp <address@hidden> wrote:

| Daniel Heiserer wrote:
|
| > How do I know what kind of datatype is args(j)?
| 
| in octave/src/ov.h   There are a number of functions defined to
| determine the data type.  They are:
| 
| [...]
| 
| Then once you determine the correct type you can get it representation
| with something like:
| 
| ComplexRowVector = args(0).complex_row_vector_value();

Since there are automatic conversions that can happen, it is generally
better to simply try to extract what you want, and then see if that
works (i.e., check error_state).  It is more flexible to do things
this way because someone may later introduce a new data type that
could work for you, but if you have only checked for a specific type,
your code will fail to accept the new data type, even if it would make
sense to do so.

jwe




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