Re: senseless warning in octave-3.6.2

[Sergei Steshenko]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>
> To: Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden>
> Cc: c. <address@hidden>; Octave users list <address@hidden>
> Sent: Monday, July 2, 2012 12:01 AM
> Subject: Re: senseless warning in octave-3.6.2
> 
> On 1 July 2012 16:42, Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden> wrote:
>>  Why on earth two _vectors_ are promoted to a matrix ?
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Broadcasting.html
> 
> HTH,
> - Jordi G. H.
>

No, the document does _not_ help. Because it does _not_ explain _why_ in a 
context of _only_ vector operands a matrix is produced (and, by the way, as I 
wrote, it's not "broadcasting", in programming WRT types "promotion" and 
"demotion" is used).

As wrote much much earlier, essentially column vector vs row vector is a 
nuisance - one type of vector would suffice.

IIUC, column vector is kind of default in Octave, that's why I expect

vec = row_vec OP col_vec

to be implemented as

vec = row_vec(:) .OP col_vec(:)
.

Regards,
  Sergei.