Re: [Gretl-devel] manipulating empty matrices

On Tue, 18 Apr 2017, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Am 18.04.2017 um 16:16 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti: >> >> But I believe that the most sensible outcome of "mshaping" an empty matrix >> would be another empty matrix. > > Fine with me, too. I think I'd prefer to throw an error. Wouldn't returning an empty matrix break the promise to give a matrix with the specified dimensions? The doc says, "Rearranges the elements of X into a matrix with r rows and c columns." If X has no elements the job can't be done.