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Re: mapper functions vs. cell arrays
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David Bateman |
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Re: mapper functions vs. cell arrays |
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Fri, 01 Sep 2006 12:44:38 +0200 |
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John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 31-Aug-2006, David Bateman wrote:
>
> | John W. Eaton wrote:
> | > Should we be bug-for-bug compatible here, or should we do something
> | > that is more consistent? I think we should do one of the following:
> | >
> | > * Change all the mapper functions so that
> | >
> | > mapper (CELL) == cellfun (@MAPPER, CELL)
> | >
> | >
> | I prefer this solution. Programs that work in matlab then work in octave
> | and we have a consistent interface...
>
> OK.
>
> Well, the current implementation of cellfun in Matlab is more complex
> than what we have in Octave. For example,
>
They copied us, when cellfun in octave-forge was implemented the matlab
cellfun couldn't take arbitrary functions, and was very simple. It seems
to me when matlab implements a feature that octave has, they never do
exactly the same but must change it in some way.
> Matlab gives an error for this
>
> cellfun (@upper, {'foo'; 'foobar'})
>
> but not this
>
> cellfun (@upper, {'foo'; 'foobar'}, 'UniformOutput', false)
>
> and both of these
>
> cellfun (@upper, {'f', 'o', 'o'})
> cellfun (@upper, {'f', 'o', 'o'}, 'UniformOutput', true)
>
> return
>
> "FOO"
>
> while
>
> cellfun (@upper, {'f', 'o', 'o'}, 'UniformOutput', true)
>
> returns a cell array of characters.
>
> There is also a new ErrorHandler parameter that allows one to specify
> a function to call if the mapper fails.
>
> Ugh. Is there any function in Matlab that is not aqcuiring a lot of
> twisty little features?
>
The multiple input/output argument stuff of the matlab cellfun seems
fairly easy to implement. The other two args I'm not sure I fully see
there value..
D.
> jwe
>
>
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