From bug-request at octave dot org Fri Feb  4 20:45:45 2005
Subject: Re: Should be able to say 'for (k=1:N)'
From: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net>
To: octave bug mailing list <bug at octave dot org>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 21:50:23 -0500


On Feb 4, 2005, at 12:07 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On  4-Feb-2005, Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net> wrote:
>
> | This is not a parser inconsistency.
> |
> | "for k = ..." is special syntax in the language.
> |
> | The consistent thing is to consider (k=1:3) to be a value.
>
> Yes, this is all correct.  However, Matlab does seem to allow
>
>   for VAR = VAL ... end
>
> and
>
>   for ( VAR = VAL ) ... end
>
> <snip>
> I'm in favor of keeping the change for compatibility, but am open to
> other suggestions.

As usual, compatibility trumps consistency.

- Paul



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