On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Craig DeForest
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, Puneet,
>
> This appears to be a bug in dummy.

Ok. I've added the bug report to the sf bug tracker.

Thanks.



> It appears that dummy is meant to supply
> extra dummy dimensions of size 1 if you run off the end of the original
> dimension list.  But the extra dummy dimension code appears to have a
> fencepost error, so that the one-dim-too-high case gives the same answer as
> the add-one-extra-dim-on-the-end case, (and the two-dims-too-high case gives
> the answer that should be given by the one-dim-too-high case).
>
> Congratulations, you are clearly traversing the code differently than most
> folks, since you are shaking out more bugs per square meter than I thought
> was possible.  Dummy() has been around for a long time.
>
>
>
> On Jun 25, 2010, at 2:58 PM, P Kishor wrote:
>
>> The subject line is rather appropriate. Nevertheless
>>
>>
>> perldl> $a = sequence 5
>> perldl> p $a
>> [0 1 2 3 4]
>> $a           Double D [5]                  P            0.04Kb
>>
>> perldl> $b = $a->dummy(0, 3)
>> perldl> p $b
>> [
>> [0 0 0]
>> [1 1 1]
>> [2 2 2]
>> [3 3 3]
>> [4 4 4]
>> ]
>> $b           Double D [3,5]                VC           0.00Kb
>>
>> perldl> $c = $a->dummy(1, 3)
>> perldl> p $c
>> [
>> [0 1 2 3 4]
>> [0 1 2 3 4]
>> [0 1 2 3 4]
>> ]
>> $c           Double D [5,3]                VC           0.00Kb
>>
>> perldl> $d = $a->dummy(2, 3)
>> perldl> p $d
>> [
>> [0 1 2 3 4]
>> [0 1 2 3 4]
>> [0 1 2 3 4]
>> ]
>> $d           Double D [5,3]                VC           0.00Kb
>>
>>
>> Whaa! Why did $a->dummy(1,3) and $a->dummy(2,3) produce the same result?
>>
>>
>>
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