Mar 28, 2013
Everything Has At Least Two Indices
Arrays in MATLAB cannot have just one index, but rather must have at least two indices. This is especially confusing as literals like [0 1 2 3], which seem to have only one index, have an extent along the second index rather than the first:
>> x = [0 1 2 3] >> size(x, 1) 1 >> size(x, 2) 4
As a consequence, special cases are introduced into the language that serve only to confuse. "Row" and "column" objects simply do not behave in the same way as two-index and higher-rank tensors.