On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 16:13, David Warde-Farley <d...@cs.toronto.edu> wrote:
> I've been using bincount() in situations where I always want the count vector 
> to be a certain fixed length, even if the upper bins are 0. e.g. I want the 
> counts of 0 through 9, and if there are no 9's in the vector I'm counting, 
> I'd still like it to be at least length 10. It's kind of a pain to have to 
> check for this case and concatenate 0's, nevermind an extra array allocation.
>
> How would people feel about an optional argument to support this behaviour? 
> I'd be happy with either a "minlength" or an "exactly this length" with 
> values above this range being ignored, but it seems like the latter might be 
> useful in more cases.

minlength works for me.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco
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