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Re: lists struture in GNU Octave
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John W. Eaton |
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Re: lists struture in GNU Octave |
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Tue, 21 Oct 2003 21:18:38 -0400 |
On 21-Oct-2003, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
| http://octave.sourceforge.net/index/language.html#Lists
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| Note that, a la' LISP, you can nest lists within lists:
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| octave> list ( 1, 2, list(3) )
This will work, but what you probably really want to use in
Octave/Matlab is cell arrays. Octaves's list data type was written
before cell arrays existed in Matlab. Now that cell arrays are
available, lists remain in Octave only for backward compatibility.
jwe
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