Re: [O] Bug: Babel: asymptote: erroneous conversion of heterogeneous-typed table

[Nick Dokos]

Eric Schulte <address@hidden> wrote:

> András Major <address@hidden> 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/
>