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overloading
display, functions and operators overloading capabilities
Description
In Scilab, variable display, functions and operators may be defined for new objects using functions (Scilab coded or primitives).
- Display
The display of new objects defined by
tlist
structure may be overloaded (the default display is similar tolist
's one). The overloading function must have no output argument and a single input argument. It's name is formed as follow%<tlist_type>_p
where%<tlist_type>
stands for the first entry of thetlist
type component truncated to the first 9 characters.- Operators
Each operator which is not defined for given operands type may be defined. The overloading function must have a single output argument and one or two inputs according to the number of operands. The function name is formed as follow:
for binary operators:
%<first_operand_type>_<op_code>_<second_operand_type>
;
for unary operators:
%<operand_type>_<op_code>
;
extraction and insertion operators which are n-nary operators are described below.
Be careful, only the types registered by the
typename function can be used in an overloading
macros. |
<operand_type>
,
<first_operand_type>
,
<second_operand_type>
are sequence of characters
associated with each data type as described in the following table:
data type | char code | typeof | comments |
double matrix | s |
constant |
|
polynomial matrix | p |
polynomial |
|
boolean matrix | b |
boolean |
|
sparse matrix | sp |
sparse |
|
boolean sparse matrix | spb |
boolean sparse |
|
Matlab sparse matrix | msp |
Matlab sparse |
|
integer matrix | i |
int8, int16, int32, int64, uint8, uint16, uint32, uint64 |
|
string matrix | c |
string |
|
handle | h |
handle |
|
compiled function | fptr |
fptr |
|
script function | mc |
function |
|
library | f |
library |
|
list | l |
list |
|
tlist | tlist type |
tlist type |
the first string in the first tlist entry |
mlist | mlist type |
mlist type |
the first string in the first mlist entry |
hypermatrix | hm |
hypermat |
Obsolete. Will be removed from Scilab 6. The code of the hypermat contents must be targeted instead. |
pointer | ptr |
pointer |
|
cell | ce |
ce |
|
structure | st |
st |
|
rational | r |
rational |
|
linear state space | lss |
state-space |
|
implicit list | ip |
implicitlist |
1:1:$ |
undefined|null object | 0 |
listdelete, void |
see null(), list() |
<op_code>
is a single character associated
with each operator as described in the following table:
op |
char code |
' |
t |
+ |
a |
- |
s |
* |
m |
/ |
r |
\ |
l |
^ |
p |
.* |
x |
./ |
d |
.\ |
q |
.*. |
k |
./. |
y |
.\. |
z |
: |
b |
*. |
u |
/. |
v |
\. |
w |
[a,b] |
c |
[a;b] |
f |
() extraction |
e |
() insertion |
i |
== |
o |
<> |
n |
| |
g |
& |
h |
.^ |
j |
.' |
0 |
< |
1 |
> |
2 |
<= |
3 |
>= |
4 |
~ |
5 |
iext |
6 |
The overloading function for extraction syntax b= a(i1,
..., in)
has the following syntax: b =
%<type_of_a>_e_(i1, ..., in, a)
and the syntax [x1, .., xm] = a(i1, ..., in)
has
the following syntax: [x1, .., xm] =
%<type_of_a>_e_(i1, ..., in, a)
.
The overloading function associated to the insertion syntax
a(i1, ..., in) = b
has the following syntax:
a = %<type_of_b>_i_<type_of_a>(i1, ..., in, b,
a)
.
The 6
char code may be used for some complex
insertion algorithm like x.b(2) = 33
where
b
field is not defined in the structure
x
. The insertion is automatically decomposed into
temp = x.b
; temp(2) = 33
;
x.b = temp
. The 6
char code is used
for the first step of this algorithm. The 6
overloading
function is very similar to the e
's one.
- Functions :
Some basic primitive function may also be overloaded for new data type. When such function is undefined for a particular data types the function
%<type_of_an_argument>_<function_name>
is called. User may add in this called function the definition associated with the input data types.
Examples
//OPERATOR 's' + 1 // it is impossible to add a number to a string function x=%c_a_s(a, b) x = a + string(b); endfunction 's' + 1 // after overloading
See also
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