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Re: Request for indexing fix
From: |
David Bateman |
Subject: |
Re: Request for indexing fix |
Date: |
Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:19:31 +0200 |
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Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060921) |
John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 14-Jun-2007, David Bateman wrote:
>
> | > x = 1:100;
> | >
> | > x(char (57)) --> 57
> | > x(char (58)) --> 1:100
> |
> | Is that with matlab? If so then the proposed patch is compatible,
>
> Yes.
>
> | Well I could replace
> |
> | idx(1) = ":"
> |
> | with
> |
> | idx(1) = 1:size(x,1);
> |
> | but if matlab accepts the previous version, this will probably come up
> | again as a bug sometime in the future. Tell me what you want to do and
> | I'll make the fix either way...
>
> I seem to recall coming across this feature once before, but I can't
> remember if it was a bug report or just from reading some code or
> docs. So I guess we should go with compatibility here. After all,
> people keep calling Octave a "clone". Why disappoint by prefering
> consistent behavior over bug-for-bug compatibility? :-/
>
Ok, then committed for bug-for-bug compatibility ;-)
D.