Re: Opinions on Matlab compatibility, Octave development

[Francesco Potortì]

>3) Code obfuscation is not helpful. Here is an example:
>
>   dim = [find(size (a) != 1, 1), 1](1); # First non-singleton dim.
>
>What is the purpose of such constructs? The same is done by
>
>   dim = find(size (a) != 1, 1);
>
>The only reason for doing this is to make it more difficult to use it
>within Matlab - because Oct2mat does not support the translation. You
>can find this example in the code of center.m, and the same code was
>also part of median.m until a few day ago.

Those two lines behave differently when a has no non-singleton
dimension.  The first one returns 1, while the second one returns an
empty matrix.  I suppose the first one was intentionally written to
return 1 in these cases.

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