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index inconsistency?
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John W. Eaton |
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index inconsistency? |
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Tue, 17 Dec 2002 16:56:04 -0600 |
On 17-Dec-2002, Albert F. Niessner <address@hidden> wrote:
| Why does octave index matrices (vectors) from 1..m, 1..n and then the
| indexing in Matrix -- the C/C++ code for dynamic loaded functions --
| done from 0..m-1, 0..n-1?
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| It really is not that big of deal. I was just wondering if anyone knows
| or remembers the rationale for doing it this way.
Matlab uses 1, so that was necessary for the scripting language to be
compatible. C/C++ arrays are 0-based, so the C++ interface to
liboctave uses 0.
jwe
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