[kepler-dev] Token.toString method(s)

[Christopher Brooks]

One issue here is that it would be nice if when we
have a DoubleMatrix that has a nil value, then if
we print it out and then read it back in with an
ExpressionReader, then we get the same matrix with
a nil value.  This points to printing nil as nil
not NaN.  So, we will need to keep a list of which
elements are nil. We probably want something fast,
like an ArrayList here, which as roughly O(n) time for
adds,  The ArrayList docs say:

> The size, isEmpty, get, set, iterator, and listIterator 
> operations run in constant time. The add operation runs in
> amortized constant time, that is, adding n elements requires O(n) time.
> All of the other operations run in linear time (roughly speaking). 
> The constant factor is low compared to that for the LinkedList implementation.

Also, I hacked up LongToken and StringToken to handle
nils.

_Christopher
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mladen Vouk 
  To: Edward A. Lee 
  Cc: Christopher Brooks ; Kepler-dev at ecoinformatics.org 
  Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 1:11 PM
  Subject: Re: [kepler-dev] Token.toString method(s)


  NaN should remain NaN to be compliant with
  standards. I am not sure that it is ok to represent
  nil as NaN either.
  Thanks
  mav

  Dan wrote:

  Good point - NaN is a legitimate result. With a simple Double token you 
  can tell whether toString should return nil from the isNil() method. 
  With a DoubleMatrix, we should probably print 'NaN' unless we can keep a 
  'shadow list' that could distinguish between 'nil' settings and NaN 
  cacluational results.

  Edward A. Lee wrote:

At 03:27 PM 2/24/2006, Christopher Brooks wrote:
  I started looking at DoubleMatrixToken, but one issue is that
the underlying data type is a Java double[], so I'd have to
keep a shadow list of nil tokens to make toString() print
nil instead of NaN.  Right now, it is possible to create
a DoubleMatrix with [1.0, 2.0 ; 3.0,nil], but this is printed as
[1.0, 2.0; 3.0, NaN].
    
I don't think we should print NaN as nil...

The problem is that a DoubleMatrixToken might be a result
of some numerical calculation, and NaN is a legitimate result.

I think it's fine to represent nil as NaN, but I think it should
still print as NaN.

Edward


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