Re: extracting value from a vector

[Rob Mahurin]

On Apr 21, 2009, at 3:48 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 21-Apr-2009, Rob Mahurin wrote:
>
> | Would it make sense to modify deal.m to allow this use in a less
> | cryptic way?  Here's a (partial) patch that allows the above with
> |       [a,b] = deal(v,"columns")
>
> The deal function just copies inputs to outputs, so currently your
> example will do
>
>   octave:1> [a, b] = deal (1, "columns")
>   a =  1
>   b = columns
>
> I don't think any change to examine the values of the arguments to
> deal and do something special will work.


Well, it does work -- I guess the patch got stripped, so I'll try  
again.  But maybe it's not a good idea :)

Rob

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