mixed type operations in Octave

[John W. Eaton]

On  9-Sep-2008, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:

| On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 4:07 PM, John W. Eaton <jwe at bevo.che.wisc.edu> wrote:
| > On  9-Sep-2008, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
| >
| > | What do you mean? int32(1) & int8(2) works, of course, but it does not
| > | do bitwise operation.
| >
| > It works for you?  This is what I see with the latest sources:
| >
| >  octave:1> int32(1) & int8(2)
| >  error: binary operator `&' not implemented for `int32 scalar' by `int8 scalar' operations
| >  octave:1> int32(1) | int8(2)
| >  error: binary operator `|' not implemented for `int32 scalar' by `int8 scalar' operations
| >
| > jwe
| >
| 
| Sorry, I meant it works in Matlab. But it does a boolean operation.

Right, that's what it should do since in Matlab the | and & operators
work on matrix elements, not bits.

jwe