Re: problem with sum (...)

[David Bateman]

Ben Abbott wrote:
>
> I'm also bewildered why Mathworks didn't include the 'native' option
> for other functions ... even more confusing to me is why 'native'
> isn't the default.

Because matlab always worked and to change it might introduce backward
incompatibilities. Thats what you get when you have a language that was
never written with a clear API.

>
> I have no opinion on providing this functionality to the other
> functions in Octave.

The infrastructure is there to do it with the patch I sent. It's just an
argument change to the DATA_REDUCTION macro to add it to the other
functions. I'd hesitate to do this though at this point.

D.


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