[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #45143] "Infinite ranges" 1:Inf in Matlab, not allowed in Octave

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #9, bug #45143 (project octave):

I wanted to know whether ranges could be of different types.

In Octave, there is a range type that stores only the base, limit, and
increment as double precision floating point values.

I think that in Matlab, the range syntax is just a way of creating a matrix
and that there is no compact internal storage for them, though ranges used in
for loops may get special treatment.

It doesn't appear to me that the issue is fixed because


for i = 1:inf
  ...
end


"works" in Matlab by setting the upper limit of the loop range to the maximum
value for an int64 value.  In Octave, it is still an error.

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