Re: {column,row}major of multiplot

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Ethan Merritt wrote:

>Longer answer
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>Some programming languages (e.g. C) and some application
>communities (e.g. image processing) choose instead to refer to
>arrays as A[column,row].  That is, the words "row" and "column"
>now correspond to the 2nd and the 1st index respectively.
>In this case "column major" still means "1st index varies fastest"
>but the 1st index is unfortunately called "column" rather than
>"row".  I have no idea why this terribly confusing choice of terms
>was introduced.
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I too wonder how that ever came about.  Whenever I program C arrays, I 
always test to make sure I'm indexing in the right fashion rather than 
go from memory.

>So gnuplot's current use of the word "columnmajor" may be
>technically correct with regard to internal storage of C arrays.
>But the user doesn't care about internal arrays, only about
>the appearance of the output page. We should change it to match
>the output page.
>

Exactly.

I'm sure this will effect Octave and perhaps others.  But I'd prefer 
this be fixed in Gnuplot.

Dan