RE: extrapolate forbidden with interp1, spline

[Schirmacher, Rolf]

Although I do not have a strong feeling on the current case, but isn't that
what "compatibility" is about: keeping errors and inconsistencies? 
:-(

Rolf

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Bateman [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 5:41 PM
> To: John W. Eaton
> Cc: address@hidden; Eric Chassande-Mottin
> Subject: Re: extrapolate forbidden with interp1, spline
> 
> 
> John W. Eaton wrote:
> > On 27-Nov-2007, David Bateman wrote:
> >
> > | This is a bug in matlab, as extrapolation should only be 
> done if the
> > | "extrap" flag is given..
> >
> > I just checked the Matlab docs and I think it is more subtle than
> > this.  It seems that methods other than nearest, linear, and v5cubic
> > do extrapolate for out of range values even without the 
> extra "extrap"
> > argument.
> >
> > jwe
> >
> >   
> Then this is inconsistent behavior.. Do we want it have it for
> compatibility?
> 
> D.
> 
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