From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: Who said strong typing is a benefit?
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 15:30:22 +0200
Date: 2002-10-13T13:30:15+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lm52eaa9.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3DA96E28.9090104@worldnet.att.net
Jim Rogers <jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net> writes:
> My favorite response to this kind of question is "what will Matlab do
> when you take the square root of a string?"
>> sqrt ('@Q')
ans =
8 9
>>
Ugh. Consistent, but useless.
However, you get an error if you try to use a string as a matrix
index. But you can use a matrix as an index for a vector (and Matlab
programmers constantly do this!)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-13 13:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-13 1:18 Who said strong typing is a benefit? steve_H
2002-10-13 2:53 ` Jim Rogers
2002-10-13 18:27 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-10-13 3:24 ` Richard Riehle
2002-10-13 7:10 ` tmoran
2002-10-13 13:00 ` Jim Rogers
2002-10-13 13:30 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2002-10-13 17:28 ` Michael Bode
2002-10-13 22:07 ` Florian Weimer
2002-10-13 19:53 ` steve_H
2002-10-13 19:31 ` steve_H
2002-10-13 15:33 ` steve_H
2002-10-13 17:14 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-10-14 1:21 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-10-13 19:42 ` steve_H
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