'end' statement

[John W. Eaton]

On 22-Oct-1998, Ferdinand Schinagl <address@hidden> wrote:

| it's me again :-. This is just wishful thinking!
| I want to demonstrate an example of a (matlab) feature
| which I think is very useful:
| 
| >> a=[1,2,3]
| 
| a =
| 
|      1     2     3
| 
| >> a(2:end)
| 
| ans =
| 
|      2     3  
| 
| In octave I'd do:
| 
| octave:21> a(2:length(a))
| ans =
| 
|   2  3
| 
| which is rather inconvenient, and it makes octave
| less matlab compatible.
| 
| Any concerns?

Can `end' occur in other contexts, or just in colon expressions that
are used as indices?  I assume the following are also ok.  Can someone
please check?

  x(end:-1:1)
  x(end)

Thanks,

jwe