Question about size() and length() of lists (newbie question)

[John W. Eaton]

On 14-Dec-2000, Douglas Eck <address@hidden> wrote:

| I noticed that size() and length() treat lists
| differently.  I can imagine that this is
| desired behavior but I thought I'd ask. 
| 
| Octave >> version
| ans = 2.1.31
| Octave >> l=list('a','b','c')
| l =
| (
|   [1] = a
|   [2] = b
|   [3] = c
| )
| Octave >> length(l)
| ans = 3
| Octave >> size(l)
| ans =
|  
|         -1        -1             

Length seems a natural way to ask for the length of a list, which
doesn't have an orientation (it is not a row or column vector), and as
currently implemented, cannot be two dimensional.

jwe



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