Re: The new Octave 3.2.4 MinGW32 and gnuplot issues

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Olaf Till <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 02:05:30PM -0700, Søren Hauberg wrote:
>> I would pity the Octave developer that couldn't use '#' for comments,
>> 'endfor' for ending loops and so forth. On the rare occasions where I
>> have to use Matlab I always and up yelling not-so-nice words to the
>> computer because it doesn't support the most basic syntax.
>
> That's just what I feel when I have to write ml-compatible Octave
> code. Then I wish to leave the compatibility-task to a converting tool
> (even if it should not be able to produce well-readable code). But (I
> know it's a bit unrelated to your discussion), the biggest advantages
> of Octave-specific syntax IMO are: 1. indexing possible where ml says
> 'indexing of temporary variable not possible', 2. assignments have a
> value, 3. C-like operators like += . All these are not handled by
> oct2mat, so oct2mat does not help so very much in the current state;
> and I'd guess adding the handling of these points would be difficult
> and would need a great effort.
>

You probably meant "temporary expression" in 1., but otherwise I
agree, it's exactly one of those things which I can't live with after
I got used to them. Matlabists may dislike stuff like this

[mass, vx, vy] = num2cell (data, 1){:}; # split matrix data to columns

but it's so damn useful :)

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RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek, PhD
computing expert & GNU Octave developer
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
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