Re: IDL's temporary() function

[Carlo de Falco]

On 22/apr/08, at 17:04, Judd Storrs wrote:

> This means that in IDL rewriting "a = 5*a + 1" as "a = 5*temporary 
> (a)+1" avoids duplicating the contents of a.

I guess in octave

a *= 5;
a += 1;

does the same as your example
c.