Over a long number of years, people have asked whether it's better to use cellfun or a for-loop to perform certain computations. As with so many things in life, the correct answer here is "it depends". Let me give you a bit more insight so you can make good choices.... read more >>

Recently on the MATLAB newsgroup, there was a thread asking how to split up a vector into pieces which were each monotonically increasing by the value 1. The post got several answers which I did not read first. Here's my thinking.... read more >>

A customer recently asked me this question at the MATLAB Virtual Conference. ... read more >>

I recently posted about optional input arguments and how to override default values. Gautam mentioned wanting to allow empty inputs as defaults. ... read more >>

Last week, I wrote a post on the switch statement in MATLAB. One theme in the comments was about using switch (or not!) for setting default values for input arguments that users didn't initialize. I realized that there is a nice pattern for setting these values that uses some compact, but readable code.... read more >>

This post continues in the theme from my last post, where people routinely come to me on a topic. Today I want to distinguish
between indexed assignment, where you can take advantage of scalar expansion, and assignment to several output arrays, often
arising from a comma-separated list from cell or struct arrays.... read more >>

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