Question about indexing multi-dimensional matrices

[Francesco Potorti`]

>> N = [3 3 4];
>> A = zeros(N);
>> idx = [1 3 2];
>> iidx = num2cell(idx);
>> A( iidx{:} ) = 1;
>
>... This is called "Fortran" or "linear" indexing and is,
>by default, available for any array.

I do not think so.  

This is a trick by which you provide several argument to A() by using
a comma-separated list: in this case, A() gets three arguments, while
with linear indexing you would provide only one (the one computed by
sub2ind).

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