From help-request at octave dot org Tue Feb  8 11:12:54 2005
Subject: Re: indexing in octfile
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Brian Blais <bblais at bryant dot edu>
Cc: David dot Bateman at motorola dot com, help@octave.org
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 12:17:33 -0500

On  8-Feb-2005, Brian Blais <bblais at bryant dot edu> wrote:

| Would you be able to write me a short example of how to use "assign" in 
| the examples I list above?  I don't see a version of "assign" which 
| takes an idx_vector, or uses the Matrix class, looking at the 
| OctaveClassReference documents.

I can't think of any cases where this kind of indexing is used in
any part of Octave, except to support the scripting language feature.

Also, it seems to me that the thing you want to do is not very cleanly
defined in Octave, so it is probably best avoided.  So if you think
you really need it, it might be best to define a better interface than
what we currently have.  If you'd like to discuss that, then please
start a thread on the maintainers at octave dot org list.

Thanks,

jwe



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