Re: ellipse

[Søren Hauberg]

lor, 31 01 2009 kl. 12:33 -0500, skrev John W. Eaton:
> On 31-Jan-2009, Soren Hauberg wrote:
> 
> | Ok. How about
> | 
> |   ellipse (a, shift, level, n, ...)
> | 
> | ? I guess that orders the input arguments by how important they are.
> 
> I think the relative order is subjective.  So I don't really see a
> good reason for changing from the original ordering.

I don't entirely agree with the ordering being subjective, but this is
really no big deal, so I've used the original ordering.

> Another option is to keep them in the original ordering but allow an
> empty matrix to be used as a placeholder that means "use the default
> value".  Then you could write
> 
>   ellipse (a, [], [], shift);
> 
> is that an acceptable compromise?

The function is implemented using default arguments, so you can do

  ellipse (a, :, :, shift)

It's even documented :-)

Soren

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