float is not valid Matlab data type; either single or double; double is default and Matlab also is un-typed for numeric classes; integers are by default stored as double as well.
You could almost turn it into an m-file as is simply by dropping the first word of each line and rewriting; the empty [] in the array are the only thing preventing that in that sample although the curlies "{}" instead of parenetheses would create a cell array instead of a base numeric array.
