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Re: matrix and unique index
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John W. Eaton |
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Re: matrix and unique index |
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Tue, 7 Jan 2003 22:24:26 -0600 |
On 7-Jan-2003, in response to a question posted to the help-octave
mailing list about how to make Octave allow a single index for a
matrix, other than the special x(:) form, Paul Kienzle
<address@hidden> wrote:
| Either:
|
| octave --traditional
|
| OR
|
| octave
| octave:1> do_fortran_indexing = 1;
Does anyone have a strong opinion *against* making this the default,
and changing do_fortran_indexing from a preference to a warning
option, so that you would specify
warn_single_index = true
(or similar) if you wanted to be warned about indexing arrays with 2
or more dimensions with a single index (other than the special x(:)
style index)? The default for this warning would also be false. But
in any case, it would only be a warning, not something that would
cause a program to fail.
I think in most cases, people expect the Matlab-compatible behavior,
and probably all settings of do_fortran_indexing are there to enable
the feature, not set it to 0. So we could eliminate some of those
things in Octave scripts and probably get rid of some unwind_protect
blocks in the process.
jwe
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