changeset 30841:6661824a987a stable

* NEWS.7.md: Note colon operator changes.
author John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
date Fri, 18 Mar 2022 09:17:58 -0400
parents 1a4a3ba925c8
children 266610d85519
files etc/NEWS.7.md
diffstat 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/etc/NEWS.7.md	Thu Mar 17 13:40:25 2022 -0400
+++ b/etc/NEWS.7.md	Fri Mar 18 09:17:58 2022 -0400
@@ -76,6 +76,11 @@
 same number of digits for each value such as
 `[0x00_00_01; 0x00_01_00; 0x01_00_00]`.
 
+- The colon operator now works for integer (int8, int16, ..., uint64)
+and single data types.  However, only double ranges use a
+memory-efficient storage scheme internally.  Other data types are
+stored as ordinary arrays.
+
 - The increment and decrement operators `++` and `--` must "hug" their
 corresponding variables.  In previous versions of Octave, whitespaces
 between these operators and the variable they affect were allowed.  That