From bug-request at octave dot org  Mon Nov  8 12:08:11 2004
Subject: expecting integer index, found
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Miroslaw Kwasniak <mirek at infrared dot zind dot ikem dot pwr dot wroc dot pl>
Cc: bug at octave dot org
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 12:00:54 -0500

On  7-Nov-2004, Miroslaw Kwasniak <mirek at infrared dot zind dot ikem dot pwr dot wroc dot pl> wrote:

| To: bug at octave dot org
| Cc: mirek
| Subject: expecting integer index, found
| 
| Bug report for Octave 2.1.61 configured for i686-pc-linux-gnu
| 
| Description:
| -----------
| 
|   Hi,
|   
|   I found similiar bug in like described about ov-{scalar,range}.h
| 
|    "Re: Evaulation of non-integer subscripts(Correction)"
|    http://www.octave.org/octave-lists/archive/bug-octave.2004/msg00742.html
|    
|    
|   Why octave has redundant code?

Because it is a large program written by several people over the
course of the last dozen years or so?  When writing or modifying a
large program, it's hard to always know that some other code already
does the same (or similar) thing.  In any case, I don't think Octave
has that much duplicated code.  If it bothers you, then please work to
submit patches that eliminate the duplications.

| Repeat-By:
| ---------
| 
|    a=1:5;
|    a(2.5)
|    error: expecting integer index, found 2.500000

I don't think this is a bug, as non-integer indices should not be allowed.

jwe



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