From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
Cc: =?utf-8?Q?Andr=C3=A1s?= Major <andras.g.major@gmail.com>,
nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug: Babel: asymptote: erroneous conversion of heterogeneous-typed table
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:11:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4217.1314645118@alphaville.americas.hpqcorp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com> of "Mon\, 29 Aug 2011 13\:02\:17 MDT." <878vqc6nye.fsf@gmail.com>
Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com> wrote:
> András Major <andras.g.major@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi Eric,
> >
> >> Given that asymptote can not make use of heterogeneous tables, it seems
> >> that it would be easiest to simply silently converted any table
> >> containing a single string element to a table of all strings. I've just
> >> applied your previous patch (thanks for the patch!). If this proves
> >> confounding in the future we can always revisit the decision.
> >
> > I've been away since my last post and now you've already applied a patch
> > -- wow! Here's another thought though: change the behaviour of the :var
> > header argument such that you can specify a range of rows, columns, or
> > a rectangle just like in table references.
>
> This is already possible, see "Indexable variable values" [1].
>
> > I agree that wildly mixing cell types in a table should be a felony,
> > but "mixing" them the way I'd like to makes perfect sense. You would
> > then simply make more than one :var to specify multiple subtables,
> > each with its own type. I think this might be better than
> > brute-forcing everything to string just so that the asymptote program
> > has to parse the values back to numbers.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
>
> I must admit by the time I got to this thread is was already many
> messages deep, and I haven't read the initial messages, so I don't know
> what your way of mixing was, but from my current understanding of
> asymptote the behavior implemented by Nick's patch seems to make the
^^^Nicolas Goaziou's patch^^^
Nick
> most sense, in that it allows tables of ints and floats, but when a
> single string is present it converts the table to all strings.
>
> Best -- Eric
>
> >
> > András
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> Footnotes:
> [1] http://orgmode.org/manual/var.html
>
> --
> Eric Schulte
> http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-29 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-29 8:00 Bug: Babel: asymptote: erroneous conversion of heterogeneous-typed table Major A
2011-08-29 8:47 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-08-29 9:12 ` András Major
2011-08-29 9:50 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-08-29 10:42 ` András Major
2011-08-29 12:50 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-08-29 16:35 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-08-29 16:52 ` Eric Schulte
2011-08-29 17:27 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-08-29 18:02 ` Eric Schulte
2011-08-29 18:50 ` András Major
2011-08-29 19:02 ` Eric Schulte
2011-08-29 19:11 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2011-08-30 19:12 ` András Major
2011-08-30 19:34 ` Eric Schulte
2011-08-30 20:45 ` András Major
2011-08-30 20:55 ` Eric Schulte
2011-08-31 6:48 ` András Major
2011-08-31 8:17 ` Nick Dokos
2011-08-31 9:35 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-08-31 12:14 ` Eric Schulte
2011-08-29 9:05 ` Nick Dokos
2011-08-29 9:40 ` András Major
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