On Fri, 31 May 2002, Olivier Andrieu <oandrieu@nerim.net> wrote:
> 
>  Christophe TROESTLER [Friday 31 May 2002] :
>  > Is there any safe way to check whether a "kind : ('a, 'b)
>  > Bigarray.kind" parameter is "float64", "complex64",... or are we bound
>  > to do
>  >   kind  = (Obj.magic float64 : ('a, 'b) Bigarray.kind)
> 
> I'm not sure if that's what you mean but in the CVS version, there are
> new functions like Genarray.kind :
>   external kind: ('a, 'b, 'c) t -> ('a, 'b) kind = "bigarray_kind"

I mean e.g.,

let create kind =
  if kind  = (Obj.magic float64 : ('a, 'b) Bigarray.kind) then
    ... fun a -> ... something ...
  else
    ... fun a -> ... something else ...

where you have to imagine [a] as being a bigarray of kind [kind].

ChriS
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