From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Tue Dec 31 15:25:42 2002
Subject: Re: f(end) feature?
From: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at jazz dot ncnr dot nist dot gov>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Cc: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 16:25:30 -0500

So I guess the following is out of the question:

	function y = head(x)
	    y = x(1:min(3,end));
	end

- Paul

On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 02:16:14PM -0600, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 31-Dec-2002, Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at jazz dot ncnr dot nist dot gov> wrote:
> 
> | octave:1> function y=f(x), y=x; end
> | octave:2> f(end)
> | ans = 1
> 
> Try the following patch.  With it, you should see
> 
>   octave:1> function y = f (x) y = x; end
>   octave:2> f (end)
>   error: invalid use of end
>   error: evaluating argument list element number 1
> 
> jwe