Re: save function

[Mike Miller]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Hamish Allan wrote:

> And I'm still not convinced about dropping the imaginary parts of 
> complex numbers for compatibility's sake ;)

We definitely should strongly consider not doing that.

I assume that the problem for MATLAB is that it doesn't read in anything 
but numbers from a text file.  Thus, it must convert character strings to 
numerical representations (using ascii character numbers, I think) before 
saving.  To store complex numbers, you need a way to represent pairs - 
Octave uses parentheses and commas, but MATLAB (apparently) can't read in 
parentheses and commas.

What can ya do?  I think this is a good place to limit compatibility.

Mike



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