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From: Michael Bode <m.g.bode@web.de>
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Subject: Re: Who said strong typing is a benefit?
Date: 13 Oct 2002 19:28:06 +0200
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Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> 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!)

So if I have a vector 

[ 1 ] 
[ 2 ]
[ 3 ]
[ 4 ] 

which would be element 

[ 0.3   1    ]
[ pi  sqrt(2)] 

of this vector?