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typename Scilab Group Scilab Function typename
NAME
typename - associates a name to variable type
CALLING SEQUENCE
[types [ [,names]]=typename()
typename(name,type)
PARAMETERS
types : integer column vector: the types codes of each defined data
types.
names : column vector of strings: the names associated to type
codes.
type : integer: the type code of new data type.
name : string: the name associated to the type code
DESCRIPTION
The function and operator overloading make use of a formal name
associated to data types to form the name of the overloading function
(see overloading). The typename can be used to handle this formal names
for hard coded data types (the tlist or mlist coded data types formal
names are defined in an other way, see overloading).
Called without right hand side argument, typename returns informations on
defined data types.
Called with right hand side argument, typename associates a name to a
data type code.
typename('',type) suppress the data type given by its code type out of
the table of known data types.
SEE ALSO
type, typeof, overloading, tlist, mlist
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