Re: origin of the index syntax

[Bill Denney]

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, David Bateman wrote:

> Francesco Potorti` wrote:
>
> > Dear Octave users,
> >
> > does anyone know where the index expression syntax used in Octave comes
> > from?  Is the Matlab people who invented it?  Or else it is older?  Was
> > it just the evolution of something in common usage?
> I believe the syntax was developed at the time when octave-forge was being 
> setup, and its category index was also being setup. Probably Paul Kienzle had 
> a hand in the development, however the original author of the make_index 
> script, that makes use of the INDEX files to create the category index, is 
> Albert Danial. So if there is someone to praise (blame :-) ) for the INDEX 
> file syntax it is  probably him.

I'm not sure, but I think that Francesco is referring to the index like 
a(5).  I don't have an answer, but I think that's the quesiton.

Bill

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