array of function handles

Francesco Potortì Potorti at isti.cnr.it
Tue Nov 18 07:24:11 CST 2008


>> How do I initialise an array with anonymous function handles?  The less
>> ugly I came up with is this:
>>
>>       distfunction{1} = @(x,w) min(x);
>>       distfunction{2} = @(x,w) max(x);
>>       distfunction{3} = @(x,w) mediandist(x,1);
>>       distfunction{4} = @(x,w) mediandist(x,w);
>>
>> Any better way?
>>
>>   
>distfunction = {@(x)min(x), @(x)max(x)}
>
>note that there is no space between the arguments as
>
>distfunction = {@(x) min(x), @(x) max(x)}
>
>will be treated as
>
>distfunction = {@(x), min(x), @(x), max(x)}
>
>by the parser, which of course is stupid.. You can protect the arguments 
>like
>
>distfunction = {(@(x) min(x)), (@(x) max(x))}
>
>permitting the spaces for readability

Thank you.  I wonder if this should go in the manual, in which case I
could try a patch.

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