Re: octave "Most Wanted" feature

[Tom Holroyd]

OK, I'm willing to concede the point that this might not add much 
more than a single add instruction, if you always did it and it 
was always restricted to integers. FFTW arrays already have 
origin and stride, don't they? And I guess I should face the fact 
that Octave arrays are already a higher-level representation, 
eh? :-)

So, octave_index_origin() and octave_array_stride() don't really 
cut it, since each dimension needs its own stride. So you'd need 
a special type that included origin and stride in the 
constructor, right? Regular arrays would default to 0 and the 
product of the preceeding dimensions, respectively.