second arg of size must be a scalar

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Francesco Potorti` <Potorti at isti.cnr.it> wrote:
> Is this a limitation inherited from Matlab or just an oversight?
>
> In 3.1.54:
>
> octave> size(ll)(4:5)
> ans =
>
>   59   18
>
> octave> size(ll,[4:5])
> warning: implicit conversion from real matrix to real scalar
> ans =  59
>
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It is a Matlab heritage. But I can't see any potential harm in such an
extension.

regards

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RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
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