Re: Matlab-compatible string class

[Richard Crozier]

On 28/12/17 16:41, Rik wrote:
> On 12/27/2017 09:38 PM, address@hidden wrote:

> I don't see a smooth transition path either.  Although Matlab presents 
> the string class as a fundamental data type, it is actually closer to a 
> container data type like a cell array.  In fact, by using cell arrays of 
> strings you can make portable code that will run in either Octave or 
> Matlab.  Maybe this is unkind, but the principal advantage seems to be 
> the syntactic sugar of using parentheses '()' for indexing rather than 
> cell array indexing '{}'.

I believe you can also do things like:

x = "the cat " + "sat on the mat"

which is kind of handy. More like a python string.

Richard

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