From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Dec 14 11:37:46 2000
Subject: Question about size() and length() of lists (newbie question)
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Douglas Eck <doug at idsia dot ch>
Cc: "help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu" <help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 11:37:37 -0600

On 14-Dec-2000, Douglas Eck <doug at idsia dot ch> wrote:

| I noticed that size() and length() treat lists
| differently.  I can imagine that this is
| desired behavior but I thought I'd ask. 
| 
| Octave >> version
| ans = 2.1.31
| Octave >> l=list('a','b','c')
| l =
| (
|   [1] = a
|   [2] = b
|   [3] = c
| )
| Octave >> length(l)
| ans = 3
| Octave >> size(l)
| ans =
|  
|         -1        -1             

Length seems a natural way to ask for the length of a list, which
doesn't have an orientation (it is not a row or column vector), and as
currently implemented, cannot be two dimensional.

jwe



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