

The main benefit of using a weakly-typed language is the ability to do rapid prototyping. For example, the declarations x=5 x=’foo’ immediately following one another are perfectly acceptable the first declaration causes x to be treated as a number, the second changes its treatment to a string. The first, and probably most notable, the difference between MATLAB and a strongly-typed language is that you don’t have to explicitly declare the types of the variables you use. MATLAB is a loosely or weakly-typed language, which has a number of real-world implications. Implicit type casting and operator overloading An example would be the conversion of an integer value/variable into a floating point value/variable or its textual representation as a string, and vice versa. In computer science, type conversion, type casting, or type coercion are different ways of changing an expression from one data type to another. There are also a set of characters that have a special role in MATLAB, some of which we have already discussed. More information about them and their meanings can be found here. Note that there are two types of logical operators, one of which is called short-circuit. Matrix left divison (also known as backslash) Below is a summary of the most important operators and their corresponding functions in MATLAB.

Corresponding to each operator, there is also MATLAB function that does the same thing for you. A complete list of MATLAB operators can be found here.
