Hi Eric, > Given that asymptote can not make use of heterogeneous tables, it seems > that it would be easiest to simply silently converted any table > containing a single string element to a table of all strings. I've just > applied your previous patch (thanks for the patch!). If this proves > confounding in the future we can always revisit the decision.
I've been away since my last post and now you've already applied a patch -- wow! Here's another thought though: change the behaviour of the :var header argument such that you can specify a range of rows, columns, or a rectangle just like in table references. I agree that wildly mixing cell types in a table should be a felony, but "mixing" them the way I'd like to makes perfect sense. You would then simply make more than one :var to specify multiple subtables, each with its own type. I think this might be better than brute-forcing everything to string just so that the asymptote program has to parse the values back to numbers. What do you think? András
