[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44201] "whos" and gui display non-integer sizes inf/nan poorly

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #10, bug #44201 (project octave):

How important is it to expand dim vectors to support NaN and Inf?  At least in
core Octave I don't see an easy way to even generate such an object.


x = ones (2, Inf)
error: out of memory or dimension too large for Octave's index type
x = ones (2, NaN, 3)
x = [](2x0x3)


Now you could have a class that overloads size to return Inf and NaN values,
but maybe the best approach is to rethink those classes rather than requiring
Octave to try and understand them?

I am also wary of having the same information, the dim_vector, interpreted two
ways.  If you do whos ('x') on the second example you would get "2xNaNx3". 
But if you ask Octave to do a calculation on x it will treat the whole thing
as an empty matrix.  I think it is easier for a programmer if Octave tells
them exactly how it sees the object in question. 



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