Re: gnuplot cvs source bug

[Juergen W. <wie...@fr...>]

On Friday 23 September 2005 23:24 ds...@ch... wrote:
> Nothing Ethan said seems to rule out the "treat all numbers as
> floats"/"treat non-decimal point numbers as ints" variable that someone
> else suggested.  It is something that could be put in the gnuplot startup
> file for those who want gnuplot always to treat numbers as floats even
> immediately after launch.

Such settings tend to be forgotten.  So scripts get unportable for
nonobvious reasons.  And---probably worse---support in these
questions becomes more difficult.

> But yeah, int(...) of this and float(...) of that scatter about the scripts
> is nasty and unnecessary.

ACK.


Juergen