Re: imbricated loops

[Judd Storrs]

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 3:25 PM, William Krekeler
<address@hidden> wrote:
> The error is likely in how the code interprets the statement as written. for 
> (j=1:i-1) is likely interpreted as for (j=1:i) -1. The -1 is extra. I've run 
> into this problem in Matlab before. Add explicit () around your arguments and 
> see if it works.

Explicit parentheses shouldn't be necessary since ":" has lower
operator precedence than "-".  In other words, "j=1:i-1" is defined to
be identical to "1:(i-1)". See:

http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Operator-Precedence.html#Operator-Precedence


--judd