Re: rename typeinfo

[Carlo de Falco]

On 25 Jun 2010, at 15:06, address@hidden wrote:

> Yeah, but what gave you the impression you should use it? You typed
> "help typeinfo", read that it returns the "type of the expression",
> and concluded that this is what you want. If it said "*internal* type,
> you likely want to use class for normal programming", you would follow
> this advice.

Actually "typeinfo" can itself be useful to users.
I once had a problem with a function producing a memory overflow because

>> typeinfo ([eye(4), sprandn(4,4,.25)])
ans = sparse matrix

while

>> typeinfo ([eye(4), eye(4)])
ans = matrix

how could I ever have debuged this with "class"?

> I believe nobody uses functions he doesn't know before he reads what
> they do, if someone does, he can't be helped anyway.

c.