From maintainers-request at octave dot org Wed Nov 17 08:52:15 2004
Subject: Re: int octave_value::numel (void) const;
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: David Bateman <David dot Bateman at motorola dot com>
Cc: maintainers at octave dot org
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:52:12 -0500

On 17-Nov-2004, David Bateman <David dot Bateman at motorola dot com> wrote:

| You also need the attached one line patch so that the "end" keyword 
| will work correctly for types where numel() is not the same as
| dims().numel()...

OK, I made this change and added the following comment:

  // We want numel = prod (size ()) here, so dont' use
  // index_object->numel () as that may be different (it is
  // the number of nonzero elements for sparse arrays).

Is that accurate?

Thanks,

jwe