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Re: Request for indexing fix
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Re: Request for indexing fix |
Date: |
Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:52:15 -0400 |
On 14-Jun-2007, David Bateman wrote:
| > x = 1:100;
| >
| > x(char (57)) --> 57
| > x(char (58)) --> 1:100
|
| Is that with matlab? If so then the proposed patch is compatible,
Yes.
| Well I could replace
|
| idx(1) = ":"
|
| with
|
| idx(1) = 1:size(x,1);
|
| but if matlab accepts the previous version, this will probably come up
| again as a bug sometime in the future. Tell me what you want to do and
| I'll make the fix either way...
I seem to recall coming across this feature once before, but I can't
remember if it was a bug report or just from reading some code or
docs. So I guess we should go with compatibility here. After all,
people keep calling Octave a "clone". Why disappoint by prefering
consistent behavior over bug-for-bug compatibility? :-/
jwe