display, functions and operators overloading capabilities
In scilab, variable display, functions and operators may be defined for new objects using functions (scilab coded or primitives).
DisplayThe display of new objects defined by tlist structure may be overloaded (the default display is similar to list's one). The overloading function must have no output argument a single input argument. It's name is formed as follow %<tlist_type>_p where %<tlist_type> stands for the first entry of the tlist type component truncated to the first 9 characters.
OperatorsEach 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, uint8, uint16, uint32 string matrix c string handle h handle compiled function fptr fptr script function mc function library l 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 pointer ptr pointer cell ce ce structure st st rational r rational linear state space lss state-space implicit polynom ip size implicit 1:$<op_code> is a single character associated with each operator as described in the following table:
op char code 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 ~ 5 .' 0 < 1 > 2 <= 3 >= 4 iext 6The overloading function for extraction syntax b=a(i1,...,in) has the following calling sequence: b=%<type_of_a>_e_(i1,...,in,a)
and the syntax [x1,..,xm]=a(i1,...,in) has the following calling sequence: [x1,..,xm]=%<type_of_a>_e_(i1,...,in,a)
The overloading function associated to the insertion syntax a(i1,...,in)=b has the following calling sequence: 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 a 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.
