[Scilab-Dev] Input requested on a few behaviors for Scilab 6...

[Samuel Gougeon]

Le 01/10/2015 18:37, François Granade a écrit :
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> 2. Make operations with the empty matrix more consistent
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> In particular, change:
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> 1 + []
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> to return [] in 6.0, instead of 1 in 5.5.2; and same for 1 - []. This would be more consistent with other operations ( 1*[], 1.^[] ...).
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> More generally:
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> A + []
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> would return [] for A of any Scilab basic type; same for other binary numerical operators.
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Here is a debatable question: Are you considering this rule only whether 
A is scalar: 1 + [] == []
or as well whether A is a vector or matrix: [2  1 -3] + [] == []
? This discussion started @ http://bugzilla.scilab.org/12661
It looks to be a hard one.