On 2015-01-20 09:28-0000 Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Phil, Alan,
> I like the idea of a PLTIMEFLT type, it expresses precisely what the variable is intended to be – it is not just a raw double. There would not be an actual incompatibility, just a refinement. I think it is an elaboration that won't be used very much (since hardly anyone uses a 32-bit version of PLplot). However, there is certainly precedent for introducing a new PLplot type for certain special kinds of arguments (e.g., PLUNICODE, PLBOOL) so I would go along with introducing a PLTIME (or PLTIMEFLT if you prefer that name) type if you want to do the implementation work. That work would be non-trivial since that new type has to be propagated to every language interface, all language versions of example 29, and our DocBook documentation, and has to be tested for the PLFLT = float case (since that is the only case where the distinction between PLTIME and PLFLT matters.) Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
