Re: M_MAP tools

[John W. Eaton]

On 18-Jul-2006, David Bateman wrote:

| 1) Octave doesn't yet have private directorys, so you have to also do
| "addpath('m_map/private')"

And be sure that the names of the private functions don't overlap with
the names of other functions...

| 2) There seems to be an issue of logical indexing in private/mu_util.m
| where octave doesn't recognize a vector of 1's and 0's as logical
| indexing, where matlab does. This seems to be a subtile incompatiability
| between matlan and octave, though in the assignment to a logical array
| of a 1 or a 0 doesn't change the type, though in octave it does. Consider
| 
| 
| >> i = logical(ones(1,4))
| 
| i =
| 
|      1     1     1     1
| 
| >> i(1) = 0
| 
| i =
| 
|      0     1     1     1
| 
| >> whos i
|   Name      Size                    Bytes  Class
| 
|   i         1x4                         4  logical array
| 
| Grand total is 4 elements using 4 bytes
| 
| whereas in octave this gives
| 
| 
| octave:2>  i = logical(ones(1,4))
| i =
| 
|   1  1  1  1
| 
| octave:3> i(1) = 0
| i =
| 
|   0  1  1  1
| 
| octave:4> whos i
| 
| *** local user variables:
| 
|   Prot Name        Size                     Bytes  Class
|   ==== ====        ====                     =====  =====
|    rwd i           1x4                         32  double
| 
| Total is 4 elements using 32 bytes
| 
| John what do you want to do with this incompatiability? My solution in
| the context of m_map was to cast as a logical before using it. That is
| add the line
| 
| indx = logical(indx)
| 
| at line 109 of private/mu_util.m

Please see the following message:

  https://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/bug-octave/2006-July/000482.html

Thanks,

jwe