Re: octave "Most Wanted" feature

[Tom Holroyd (NIH/NIMH) [E]]

robert bristow-johnson wrote:
> > Could you allow,
> >
> >         > octave_index_origin (0);
> > or
> >         > octave_index_origin (1);   (the default)
>
>
> or even 
>
>         > octave_index_origin (-256);

Er, no. There are two choices, 0 and 1. There are no other choices. And you 
certainly would not want to have different index origins for the rows and 
columns of the same matrix! What would be the point? You can define your own 
indexing functions to do that if you want to.

> ... imagining that Octave is written in C or C++

If you don't know that, then ... EOF