function applied to each component in an if clause

[sururi]

I'm wondering if there is a practical way of applying a comparison operator
to each component of a vector..

function [y] = lambda(x)
  y.=x*2;
endfunction

x = [1 2 3];
lambda(x)

ans =
   2   4   6

this works ok. But something like:

function [y] = lom(x)
    if(x<2)
        y=x.*3;
    else
        y=x.*1;
    endif
endfunction

fails drastically. 

lom([1 1 1])
ans =
   3   3   3

ok but, as soon as the conditions are mixed:

lom([1 1 2])
ans =
   1   1   2

not the [3 3 2] as I had intended.

I guess this problem may be solved using a loop over the components:

for i=1:length(x)
...
endfor

but I'm wondering if Octave has a comparison operator that takes care of
each component (smt like ".<")?

With my thanks in advance.
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