Re: bug in imshow with all negative values

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:07:08AM -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:
> Yes, the patch to imshow looks OK to me.  But rather than introducing
> a function that can only return the max value, how about something
> like this:
> 
>   s = numeric_limits (class (pi))
> 
>   => s.epsilon = 2.2204e-16
>      s.is_exact = false
>      s.is_integer = false
>      s.is_signed = true
>      s.min = 2.2251e-308
>      s.max = 1.7977e+308
> 
>   s = numeric_limits (class (uint8 (1)))
> 
>   => s.epsilon = 0
>      s.is_exact = true
>      s.is_integer = true
>      s.is_signed = false
>      s.min = 0
>      s.max = 255
> 
> and perhaps include all the fields that are available in the C++
> numeric_limits class defined in the <limits> header?
> 
> This function would return an error if given a class that was not a
> numeric type.

That'd be perfect!

> It should be implemented in the octave_value class hierarchy (I could
> do this part; for now you could just write a .m file fucntion that
> used a switch statement for the common class names and that returned
> the info you are interested in).

Great.  I'll do it this weekend.

Thanks!
Stefan



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