Use in-place operators in m-files where possible. * scripts/audio/@audioplayer/set.m, scripts/audio/@audiorecorder/set.m, scripts/audio/mu2lin.m, scripts/elfun/cosd.m, scripts/general/del2.m, scripts/general/profexplore.m, scripts/general/quadl.m, scripts/general/rat.m, scripts/general/rotdim.m, scripts/help/get_first_help_sentence.m, scripts/help/private/__strip_html_tags__.m, scripts/image/cubehelix.m, scripts/io/textread.m, scripts/linear-algebra/duplication_matrix.m, scripts/linear-algebra/housh.m, scripts/linear-algebra/krylov.m, scripts/linear-algebra/logm.m, scripts/linear-algebra/normest.m, scripts/linear-algebra/onenormest.m, scripts/optimization/fminsearch.m, scripts/optimization/lsqnonneg.m, scripts/optimization/qp.m, scripts/plot/appearance/annotation.m, scripts/plot/appearance/axis.m, scripts/plot/appearance/legend.m, scripts/plot/appearance/specular.m, scripts/plot/draw/colorbar.m, scripts/plot/draw/hist.m, scripts/plot/draw/plotmatrix.m, scripts/plot/draw/private/__stem__.m, scripts/plot/util/__actual_axis_position__.m, scripts/plot/util/__gnuplot_drawnow__.m, scripts/plot/util/findobj.m, scripts/plot/util/print.m, scripts/plot/util/private/__go_draw_axes__.m, scripts/plot/util/private/__print_parse_opts__.m, scripts/plot/util/rotate.m, scripts/polynomial/pchip.m, scripts/polynomial/polyaffine.m, scripts/polynomial/polyder.m, scripts/polynomial/private/__splinefit__.m, scripts/polynomial/residue.m, scripts/signal/arch_fit.m, scripts/signal/arch_rnd.m, scripts/signal/bartlett.m, scripts/signal/blackman.m, scripts/signal/freqz.m, scripts/signal/hamming.m, scripts/signal/hanning.m, scripts/signal/spectral_adf.m, scripts/signal/spectral_xdf.m, scripts/signal/stft.m, scripts/sparse/bicgstab.m, scripts/sparse/cgs.m, scripts/sparse/private/__sprand_impl__.m, scripts/sparse/qmr.m, scripts/sparse/sprandsym.m, scripts/sparse/svds.m, scripts/specfun/legendre.m, scripts/special-matrix/gallery.m, scripts/statistics/base/gls.m, scripts/statistics/models/logistic_regression.m, scripts/statistics/tests/kruskal_wallis_test.m, scripts/statistics/tests/manova.m, scripts/statistics/tests/wilcoxon_test.m, scripts/time/datevec.m: Use in-place operators in m-files where possible.

## Copyright (C) 2008-2015 David Bateman
##
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##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} realpow (@var{x}, @var{y})
## Compute the real-valued, element-by-element power operator.
##
## This is equivalent to @w{@code{@var{x} .^ @var{y}}}, except that
## @code{realpow} reports an error if any return value is complex.
## @seealso{power, reallog, realsqrt}
## @end deftypefn

function z = realpow (x, y)

  if (nargin != 2)
    print_usage ();
  endif

  z = x .^ y;
  if (iscomplex (z))
    error ("realpow: produced complex result");
  endif

endfunction


%!assert (realpow (1:10, 0.5:0.5:5), power (1:10, 0.5:0.5:5))
%!assert (realpow (1:10, 0.5:0.5:5), [1:10] .^ [0.5:0.5:5])
%!test
%! x = rand (10, 10);
%! y = randn (10, 10);
%! assert (x.^y, realpow (x,y));
%!assert (realpow (1i,2), -1)

%!error realpow ()
%!error realpow (1)
%!error realpow (1,2,3)
%!error <produced complex result> realpow (-1, 1/2)