From bug-request at octave dot org Fri Mar 24 18:12:22 2006
Subject: Re: isvector (again)
From: Bill Denney <denney at seas dot upenn dot edu>
To: William Poetra Yoga H <williampoetra at gmail dot com>
cc: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>, bug@octave.org
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 19:11:37 -0500 (EST)

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, William Poetra Yoga H wrote:

> --- Bill Denney <denney at seas dot upenn dot edu> wrote:
>> I really think that anything where (prod(size(x)) == max(size(x))) is a 
>> vector.
>
> Yes, I agree with this one. But somehow I don't like to use it for 
> checking whether a vector is a vector. I don't know (haven't checked 
> yet), but is 
> ((length(size(x)>1)==1)&&(length(size(x)==1)==(length(size(x))-1))) 
> faster than the above?

I don't know if this method would be faster, but I do know that it's less 
readable (to me at least).

Bill

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