From help-request at octave dot org Tue Nov 15 19:08:38 2005
Subject: shiftdim.m documentation vs. reality
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Joshua Rigler <jrigler at hao dot ucar dot edu>
Cc: "Help-Octave," <help at octave dot org>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 20:08:19 -0500

On 15-Nov-2005, Joshua Rigler wrote:

| The documentation in 2.1.71 says that a negative integer argument to
| shiftdim.m will move dimensions to the left, cycling the 1st dimension
| to the end.  A positive integer argument will shift all dimensions to
| the right, and add a singleton first dimension.  This seems to be the
| opposite of what I observe,

I think the doc string has it backwards and the code is correct.  I
fixed the doc string in CVS.

Also, there should be no error for things like

  shiftdim (ones (2, 10), 10);

but I think this fails in 2.1.17.  It is fixed in 2.1.72 and 2.9.4.

Thanks,

jwe



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