From bug-request at octave dot org Sat Dec 17 15:25:39 2005
Subject: Re: [OctDev] Proposed changes to cell2mat and inclusion in Octave
From: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net>
To: William Poetra Yoga Hadisoeseno <williampoetra at gmail dot com>
Cc: bug at octave dot org
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 16:24:21 -0500


On Dec 13, 2005, at 9:19 PM, William Poetra Yoga Hadisoeseno wrote:

> On 12/14/05, John W. Eaton <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu> wrote:
>> On 14-Dec-2005, William Poetra Yoga Hadisoeseno wrote:
>>
>> |       Use p instead of i as counter.
>>
>> Why?
>>
>
> Because i is also the name for sqrt(-1), and according to the Matlab
> docs, this is not a good practice (so I usually use p and q for
> counters). I know this is the competition, but I think it's a good
> suggestion. I don't really mind though ;) What do you think?

I think it is better to always use 1i or 1j instead of the built
in constants i and j.  This frees i and j for the traditional
role as integer indices.

- Paul



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