Re: gnuplot cvs source bug

[Harald H. <h.h...@tu...>]

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Ga=EBl Varoquaux wrote:

>     So far I haven't expressed my opinion on that subject, and I don't
> what to add wood to the flame, but I must say that I am strongly opposed
> to 1/2 !=3D 1/2.0 . This just make gnuplot hermetic to non coders. It als=
o
> makes it behave differently then octave and matlab, and most scientific
> programs.

I am a coder, but I also think that 1/2 should be equal to 1/2.0. Since
gnuplot does not provide explicit variable types you always have to use
hacks to make sure that you use floats, e.g. f(a,b)=3Da/(1.0*b). This often
leads to bugs in gnuplot scripts. What about Pascal syntax:

float =3D a/b
int =3D a div b

Best regards
Harald

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