From help-request at octave dot org Tue Sep 14 14:49:26 2004
Subject: Re: Cell arrays of strings in "sort" and "unique"
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: David Bateman <David dot Bateman at motorola dot com>
Cc: Keith Goodman <kwgoodman at gmail dot com>, help@octave.org
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 15:45:13 -0400

On 14-Sep-2004, David Bateman <David dot Bateman at motorola dot com> wrote:

| As for sorting of cell arrays, matlab handles this by an overloaded
| function. We should probably do the same thing, at this point as
| part of octave-forge since dispatch is there. But when classes are
| in octave, as part of octave itself...

Although Octave doesn't support classes in the same way as Matlab, I
think we should probably fix sort to handle cell arrays in a
compatible way, even if that means we have to add another case to
Fsort.

What about structs?  Does Matlab also have a special sort method for
those?

jwe



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