From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Sun Nov 28 08:52:03 1999
Subject: Re: not compatable with Matlab (matrix problem)
From: Mirek Kwasniak <mirek at zind dot ikem dot pwr dot wroc dot pl>
To: Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at icp dot inpg dot fr>
Cc: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian dot org>,         Shengchao Li <lish@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu>,         bug-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 15:50:57 +0100

On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 02:50:27PM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
[...]
> I do not think so.  The above expression groups syntactically like:
> 
>     [(a (1+1))*(b)] 
> 
> It is totally normal that it does not work.  Braindead Matlab (v. 5.2) gives
> different results for the following expressions:
> 
>     [a(1+1) *b]
>     [a (1+1)*b]
> 
> which is an unacceptable situation, because the semantics of expressions
> should not depend on the place of white spaces.  I vote for not changing the
> behavior of Octave.

OK, I never had used "a (index)" - always "a(index)" and I don't know about
it. To be shure we should ever use notation "[ a , b ]" not "[ a b ]", maybe
the latest shoulbe disallowed?

Mirek



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