From bug-request at octave dot org Sat Apr  1 18:15:16 2006
Subject: Re: Problem with recent change to isvector and isscalar
From: "William Poetra Yoga Hadisoeseno" <williampoetra at gmail dot com>
To: David dot Bateman at motorola dot com
Cc: bug at octave dot org, "Bill Denney" <denney@seas.upenn.edu>
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 08:13:40 +0800

On 4/2/06, David Bateman <David dot Bateman at motorola dot com> wrote:
> The recent change that Bill made to the isvector and isscalar functions
> causes a number of failed tests in the test suite. Perhaps it is the
> test that is now wrong and not Bill's changes, but I find that the code
>
> s.a = 1; isvector(s)
> ans = 1
>
> rather strange and counter-intutitive behavior. I checked matlab and it
> too returns 1 in this case. Can we change the sense of the related tests?
>

Actually I think Matlab views something as a 1x1 matrix. So the above
struct should be a 1x1 matrix of struct type, thus it is a vector.
Strange, but makes sense somehow.

--
William Poetra Yoga Hadisoeseno



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