[Gretl-devel] matrix error

[Allin Cottrell]

On Sat, 1 Mar 2008, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> The following produces an error on a post-1.7.2-build:
> 
> matrix m1 = zeros(1,5)
> matrix m2 = ones(1,5)
> mymat = m1 | m2
> 
> whereas this version works:
> 
> matrix m1 = zeros(1,5)
> matrix m2 = ones(1,5)
> matrix mymat = m1 | m2
> 
> I know the second variant (with explicit matrix declaration) is 
> cleaner, but shouldn't the first one also work?

This is the old business of what "|" means: logical OR, or 
vertical matrix concatenation?  

Maybe for 1.7.4 it's time to insist on "||" for OR.

Allin.