Re: origin of the index syntax

[Richard Hindmarsh]

> > > > does anyone know where the index expression syntax used
> > > > in Octave comes from?  Is the Matlab people who invented it?
> > > > Or else it is older?
> > > > Was it just the evolution of something in common usage?

If you mean syntax like 

1:n, :, etc.,

this certainly goes back as far as Matlab and may have been used by earlier 
matrix computation pioneers.

It is known as 'colon notation' and is described and discussed in 
Golub and Van Loan, Matrix Computations, 3rd Edition, ISBN = 0-8018-5414-8, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996



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