Re: Octave project involvement

[David Bateman]

A.B. Kinsman wrote:
> Dear maintainers of Octave:
> 
> First let me say this is a great project, and I am excited about taking
> a crack at contributing something. I have begun to work on the
> suggested improvement of extending the meaning of .* to include by row
> and by column scaling, and wanted to be sure this will not be redundant
> effort. Please let me know if you have any suggestions.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Adam Kinsman
> McMaster University, 
> Ontario, Canada
> 


In fact there was a patch for that one against a much older version of
octave (version 2.1.31), though its probably not that hard to port to a
current version of octave. See

http://octave.cvs.sourceforge.net/octave/octave-forge/extra/patches/M-v-ops-2.1.31.patch?hideattic=0&revision=1.1&view=markup

However, this patch wasn't accepted at the time (ask John why) and
although the idea is nice, any patch might not be accepted now. So some
feedback from John is probably a good idea. before embarking on this
particular task.

Also note that the same behavior might be had with the use of repmat, or
the bsxfun function I just introduced.. Maybe these are sufficient,
though some benchmarking is probably in order.

D.