From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Oct 12 13:14:58 1995
Subject: Re: BAR not Matlab 4+ compatible
From: John Eaton <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Ted dot Harding at nessie dot mcc dot ac dot uk (Ted Harding)
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 13:14:57 -0500

Ted Harding <Ted dot Harding at nessie dot mcc dot ac dot uk> wrote:

: This is not how Matlab USED to do it

Yes, that's not how I remembered it working when I implemented bar()
for Octave (based on looking at how bar worked when I ran it, and by
reading the description of what it was supposed to do, but *not* by
reading the code).  In doing that, I also noticed some very strange
behavior when the values were not in ascending order, and my version
goes to great lengths to avoid such problems.  It may be a bit slower,
but I think it does the right thing in more cases.

: (see bar.m from MatLab, vintage 1988, below).

Please don't post code that has a MathWorks Copyright to this list.

Thanks,

jwe