Re: [newbie] how to avoid a for-loop

[Marco Atzeri]

On 12/18/2014 9:33 PM, Jean Dubois wrote:
> 2014-12-18 18:26 GMT+01:00 Marco Atzeri <address@hidden>:
> > On 12/18/2014 5:40 PM, Jean Dubois wrote:

> thanks Marco,
> This is what I made of it:
> function [result] = calp(m)
> k=[0:m];
> n=2*m-k;
> result=arrayfun(@nchoosek,n,k)
>
> it works fine, the only thing which I don't understand quite is why
> the @ is necessary?

without the @ the interpreter can not discriminate between a function 
and a variable called in the same way

http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Function-Handles.html#Function-Handles

> kind regards,
> jean