new functionality with '[]'?

[John W. Eaton]

On 21-Sep-2005, Mike Miller wrote:

| GNU Octave, version 2.1.71 (i686-pc-cygwin).
| 
| It might have to do with do_fortran_indexing.

Or compatibility "bugs" that we tried to fix.

| This is from 2.1.71:
| 
| octave:1> X=rand(3)
| X =
| 
|    0.45610  0.32443  0.34168
|    0.51433  0.13733  0.84220
|    0.64126  0.85705  0.46983
| 
| octave:2> X(1,1)=[]
| X =
| 
|    0.45610  0.32443  0.34168
|    0.51433  0.13733  0.84220
|    0.64126  0.85705  0.46983

I think this is still not compatible behavior.

| octave:3> X(1)=[]
| X =
| 
|    0.51433  0.64126  0.32443  0.13733  0.85705  0.34168  0.84220  0.46983

But this is.  Kind of an odd "feature" if you ask me.

jwe



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