Matlab madness

Posted on 27 January 2004 by Åsmund

Okay, time for some Matlab annoyances.

[] is the empty matrix.
| is logical or.

[] | 1 evaluates to []. In other words,

if ( [] | 1 )
  function();
end

will never call function.

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