MMGA

Make MATLAB Great Again

Why

MATLAB is fast in matrix operation, however writing MATLAB code is not as free as Python, makes it hard to write bigger project while maintaining good readability for debug / update.

For example, there's no built-in logger package in MATLAB, and if anyone want to print out some log information, it has to be achieved by using fprintf, disp or similar functions. However, fprintf has limited formatting operators, rather than Python you could do "{}".format(any_obj) or simply use f-string like f"{any_obj}". If you choose disp, then you will find it only accepts single input, to output multiple variables together, it will be like:

disp({1, 2, 3, "four", [5,6]})
% gives:     {[1]}    {[2]}    {[3]}    {["four"]}    {[5 6]}

Then the output becomes ugly. While in Python:

one, two, three, four, five_and_six = 1, 2, 3, "four", [5,6]
print(f"{one}, {two}, {three}, {four}, {five_and_six}")
# gives: 1, 2, 3, four, [5, 6]

To make everything clean and nice, you need to spend lot of effort on formatting. And there are other examples I cannot list here.

To make programming more easy in MATLAB, I want to implement a series of functions / classes / packages, so that a MATLAB program could be written in a way close to Python.

Currently I just have a naïve thinking of this, let's see if it could be done.

Install

• Recommend to use mpminstall if you are using MATLAB>=R2024b.
• Or use addpath(...) / Copy the file you need to the destination folder.

Usage

• fstr
• printf: printf(varargin, sep=" ", ends=newline(), file=fileID) % all key-value pairs are optional
• ternary: ternary(cond, a, b) % equals to cond?a:b in C