## Copyright (C) 1998 John W. Eaton
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} dot (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{dim})
## Computes the dot product of two vectors. If @var{x} and @var{y}
## are matrices, calculate the dot-product along the first 
## non-singleton dimension. If the optional argument @var{dim} is
## given, calculate the dot-product along this dimension.
## @end deftypefn

## Author: jwe

function z = dot (x, y, dim)

  if (nargin != 2 && nargin != 3)
    usage ("dot (x, y, dim)");
  endif

  if (nargin < 3)
    if isvector (x)
      x = x(:);
    endif
    if isvector (y)
      y = y(:);
    endif
    if (size (x) != size (y))
      error ("dot: sizes of arguments must match")
    endif
    z = sum(x .* y);
  else
    if (size (x) != size (y))
      error ("dot: sizes of arguments must match")
    endif
    z = sum(x .* y, dim);
  endif

endfunction