Re: equivalent for C-style init: structname varname[] = {...} ?

[Sergei Steshenko]

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> From: Dimitri Maziuk <address@hidden>
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> Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2012 6:53 PM
> Subject: Re: equivalent for C-style init: structname varname[] = {...} ?
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> On 11/17/2012 7:48 PM, Sergei Steshenko wrote:
> 
>>  In Octave structs are associative arrays.
> 
> Is that documented somewhere or is it lie the rest of octave 
> "documentation" -- you're supposed to already know matlab?
> 
> Because it certainly explains why I can't have mixed-type fields in a 
> struct.
> 
> Dima
> 
> _______________________________________________


"have mixed-type fields" - "foo" and "foo bar" are _both_ strings, so it's the 
same type.

I suggest to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_table first.

"two" and 2 would be different types (string vs (integer) number), but it's not 
what I was talking about.

Regards,
  Sergei.