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Re: Incompatable array calculation


From: Przemek Klosowski
Subject: Re: Incompatable array calculation
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 13:32:31 -0400
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On 07/10/2018 10:51 AM, Sergei Steshenko wrote:
There is no problem, this behaviour is called "broadcasting" :

https://octave.org/doc/v4.4.0/Broadcasting.html

.. which is a logical extension of a behavior that existed in Matlab language from the beginning:  2*[1,2,3] being evaluated to [2 4 6]
This is horrible bug causing a lot of trouble.
I could see it might be puzzling if you don't know about this behavior, or let it happen accidentally---but it is also very useful when used on purpose.
There's no point in complaining about it, though, provided there's a reliable way to print a warning for (1:2) + (1:2)'.

Having said that, I thought I remembered warning('on','Octave:broadcast') but it didn't do anything.
warning('on','Octave:language-extension')  warns about automatic broadcast---is that the recommended way? I don't remember what else it warns about.

octave:8>octave:8> (1:2) + (1:2)'
warning: performing `operator +' automatic broadcasting
ans =

   2   3
   3   4
 


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