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Re: proper lvalues and whatnot
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John W. Eaton |
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Re: proper lvalues and whatnot |
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Mon, 21 Aug 2000 02:17:03 -0500 (CDT) |
On 18-Aug-2000, Ross A. Lippert <address@hidden> wrote:
| To me, and maybe not to anyone else, what seems mmore logical is
| v(I) += x(I) should be implemented as
| for i=1:length(I), v(I(i)) += x(I(i)); end
That might be nice in some instances, but I think Octave must behave
as though
a(idx) += b
and
a(idx) = a(idx) + b
are equivalent. I'm afraid that the behavior of the second statement
is not equivalent to your loop if idx has repeated values.
jwe