changeset 9408:6729708602ca

NEWS update
author Jaroslav Hajek <highegg@gmail.com>
date Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:24:57 +0200
parents 0951174cbb03
children ed392e13c117
files ChangeLog NEWS
diffstat 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/ChangeLog	Mon Jun 29 14:07:32 2009 +0200
+++ b/ChangeLog	Mon Jun 29 14:24:57 2009 +0200
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 2009-06-29  Jaroslav Hajek  <highegg@gmail.com>
 
 	* NEWS: Correct info.
+	* NEWS: Update.
 
 2009-06-26  Michael Goffioul  <michael.goffioul@gmail.com>
 
--- a/NEWS	Mon Jun 29 14:07:32 2009 +0200
+++ b/NEWS	Mon Jun 29 14:24:57 2009 +0200
@@ -12,6 +12,14 @@
     no longer needed to avoid repeated indexing by logical arrays using
     `find' for performance reasons.
 
+** The built-in function equivalents to associative operators (plus, times,
+   mtimes, and, or) have been extended to accept multiple arguments. This is
+   especially useful for summing (multiplying, etc.) lists of objects 
+   (of possibly distinct types):
+   
+     matrix_sum = plus (matrix_list{:});
+    
+
 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.2:
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