Re: dim-vector.h

[Carnë Draug]

On 13 May 2015 at 22:04, rik <address@hidden> wrote:
> [...]
> First, there is no single argument constructor in dim-vector.h to create a
> dim_vector with the requested number of dimensions.  Why don't we have this
> constructor?  It seems like it would be useful.  The only possible
> confusion is that people coming from m-files might think that it is
> equivalent to ones (N) which creates an NxN value.
> [...]

Such constructor did exist once upon a time but got deprecated to avoid
exactly that confusion.  It got removed for 4.0

  http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/5b263e517c95#l8.7

This should have been documented with doxygen, I think at the time we
we're not really doing it.

Carnë