[Gambas-user] Arrays of mixed numeric type always float[] not variant[]

[Brian G]

Yes I can do that, I guess I was not thinking...
Thanks. Tuesday, 08 March 2022, 10:33AM -08:00 from T Lee Davidson  t.lee.davidson at gmail.com :

>On 3/7/22 14:28, Brian G wrote:
> When I create an array
>
> dim a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 4.5]
> Gambas always creates a float[] not variant[], which makes it impossible to add sets like [1,3,4] to the array later.  Is this 
> the correct
> behavior for mixed arrays of numbers?
>
>Is there a reason you can't declare the array as Variant[]? I don't have any problem inserting an integer array into a variant 
>array.
>
>This code:
>Public Sub Main()
>
>   Dim a As Variant[] = [1, 2, 3, 4.5, 5]
>
>   a.Insert([6, 7, 8])
>   For Each b As Variant In a
>     Print b & "\t" & TypeOf(b)
>   Next
>
>End
>
>Yields:
>1       7
>2       7
>3       7
>4.5     7
>5       7
>6       4
>7       4
>8       4
>
>
>-- 
>Lee
>
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