fyi: pl_plot and whitespace_in_literal_matrix

[John W. Eaton]

On  8-Mar-2002, Douglas Eck <address@hidden> wrote:

| For reasons I cannot remember, presumably matlab compatability, I had
| whitespace_in_literal_matrix = "traditional"
| in my .octaverc
| 
| This leads to the following behavior (which I think is bizarre, but hey,
| I can turn it off --- in fact I had to explicitly turn it on!---so
| who's complaining.)
| 
| ax=[1 2 3 4]
| [ax (3), ax (4)]
| ans =
|          1        2        3        4        3        1        2        3     
   4        4
| 

Yes, because Matlab does not interpret "ax (3)" and "ax (4)" as
indexing operations, but instead as separate expressions ax, (3), ax,
and (4).

| This breaks plplot because the plplot-supplied axis.m
| does this:
| 
|         __pl.axis(__pl_strm,[3,4]) = [ax (3), ax (4)];

It needs to be written as

  __pl.axis(__pl_strm,[3,4]) = [(ax (3)), (ax (4))];

or
  __pl.axis(__pl_strm,[3,4]) = [ax(3), ax(4)];


jwe



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