From: "Sprague, Webb (OFM)" <Webb.Sprague@ofm.wa.gov>
To: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 6869@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6869: Octave mode: incorrect "unbalanced block" warning
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:44:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AEABC21942B1974B82CB5B3605B8C452CED0BA@ofmmxalc712.ofm.wa.lcl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AEABC21942B1974B82CB5B3605B8C452CED0B8@ofmmxalc712.ofm.wa.lcl>
There is another nuance -- Matlab uses "end" for closing blocks only,
while Octave allows "endxxx" where xxx signifies the opening ("endif",
"endfunction" etc). Octave also allows the plain "end" for blocks.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sprague, Webb (OFM)
> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 8:35 AM
> To: 'Stefan Monnier'
> Cc: 6869@debbugs.gnu.org
> Subject: RE: bug#6869: Octave mode: incorrect "unbalanced block"
> warning
>
> Hi Stefan. See below...
>
> > It's a bug in octave's indentation code, indeed. It gets confused
by
> > the "end" in the following line:
> >
> > > x = data(:,2:end);
>
> Oh -- that makes sense.
>
> >
> > I don't know Octave much, as it so happens but I've recently been
> > playing with a new indentation code for Octave (using SMIE), so I'm
> > interested in fixing it. Could you explain to me what is this "end"
> > (and more generally what the "data(:,2:end)" means: all I can guess
> is
> > that it's an array indexing of some sort).
>
> There are two uses for "end" that are pretty different:
>
> 1. Closing blocks (e.g. "if x==1 y=3 end")
>
> 2. Indexing arrays. Here "end" is evaluated to give the length of a
> dimension in the array. For example if x=[2 3 4 5], then x(end) == 5,
> x(end-1) == 4, etc.
>
> Note that ":" means all elements when evaluated as an index, and "x:y"
> gives the vector of elements between x and y, and "3:end" means [3 4 5
> ... end] where end is the max index. So, "data(:,2:end)" means all
the
> rows of data (the first ":") and the columns from 2 to the end.
>
> Does that make sense?
>
> If you really want to learn octave and don't have much experience with
> matlab I would suggest Attaway's book on matlab. Octave tracks it
> pretty closely.
>
> Thanks so much for dealing with this! I sort of have my hands full,
> and emacs indentation code just freaks me out ;)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-17 15:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-16 23:35 bug#6869: Octave mode: incorrect "unbalanced block" warning Sprague, Webb (OFM)
2010-08-17 9:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-17 15:34 ` Sprague, Webb (OFM)
2010-08-17 15:44 ` Sprague, Webb (OFM) [this message]
2010-08-18 14:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-08-31 12:24 ` Stefan Monnier
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