enum in octave?

[Matthias Brennwald]

On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 01:53 -0500, help-octave-request at cae.wisc.edu
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> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:49:03 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Jim H <James.Haefner at usu.edu>
> Subject: enum in octave?
> To: help-octave at octave.org
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> 
> Hi,
> I think the question I want to ask is "does Octave have the concept of
> enum
> as in C?"
> 
> My application:  I would like to pass a set of arguments to a function
> in an
> array (p[ ]), but I want to refer to the elements of the array by
> mnemonic
> names like:
> 
> y[BOB] = p[R]*y[BOB]*(1 - y[BOB]/p[K]);
> 
> in C this could be done with #define R 0  #define K 1, etc. or by an
> enum
> structure.
> 
> Possible in octave?
> 
> Jim 

Jim

How about this (in Octave):

---------------
R = 0;
K = 1;
BOB = ...; (insert whatever value needs to go here)
y[BOB] = p[R]*y[BOB]*(1 - y[BOB]/p[K]);
---------------

Cheers
Matthias