From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Sun Jun 18 20:16:36 2000
Subject: Re: Bug: Re: [a (b + c)] == [a b+c] ?
From: Joao Cardoso <jcardoso at inescn dot pt>
To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
CC: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 02:21:03 +0100

Paul Kienzle wrote:
> 
> This is in the octave help files:
> 
>      If the value of `whitespace_in_literal_matrix' is `"traditional"',
>      Octave will convert spaces to a comma between identifiers and `('.
>      For example, given the matrix
...

Thanks. I'm a bit lazy, so I always forgot the comma. And, being lazy, I
haven't checked the docs. I knew of whitespace_in_literal_matrix, but
tried setting it to '1' and '0'!

Joao

> 
> Paul Kienzle
> pkienzle at kienzle dot powernet dot co dot uk
> 
> From: Joao Cardoso <jcardoso at inescn dot pt>
> >I think that this is definitively a parser bug (probably difficult to
> >correct)
> >(it also occurs in 2.1.30):
> >
> >
> >octave:1> T=(1:5)';
> >
> >octave:2> [T T]
> >ans =
> >
> >  1  1
> >  2  2
> >  3  3
> >  4  4
> >  5  5
> >
> >octave:3> [T (T)]
> >ans =
> >
> >  1
> >  2
> >  3
> >  4
> >  5
> >
> >octave:4> [T (1+T)]
> >error: invalid vector index = 6
> >
> >octave:5> [T, (1+T)]
> >ans =
> >
> >  1  2
> >  2  3
> >  3  4
> >  4  5
> >  5  6



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