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tmoran@acm.org wrote in message news:<%%8q9.21249$rz6.2550@sccrnsc02>...
 
> 
> > performing operations no matter what the actual data
> > types turn out to be at run-time"

>   What does the interpreter do when you add a 3D vector to a 2D vector,
> or do "if A > B" where A and B are complex, etc.  I don't doubt that
> it will "perform operations no matter what" - I'm just curious what
> those operations might turn out to be.


� threeD=zeros(2,2,2); twoD=zeros(2,2);
� threeD

threeD(:,:,1) =

     0     0
     0     0


threeD(:,:,2) =

     0     0
     0     0

� twoD

twoD =

     0     0
     0     0

� threeD+twoD
??? Error using ==> +
Number of array dimensions must match for binary array op.

� threeD>twoD
??? Error using ==> >
Number of array dimensions must match for binary array op.