From bug-octave-request at che dot utexas dot edu  Tue Nov 29 09:06:52 1994
Subject: Bug (or compability problem)
From: Johan Pensar RT <jpensar at ra dot abo dot fi>
To: bug-octave at che dot utexas dot edu
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 17:05:51 +0200


Not actually a bug, but mainly a compability problem is that octave 1.0
defines that the 'error' function always returns to toplevel, but 
matlab according to the online help returns to toplevel ONLY if the
argument is a non-null string. 

Thus, following construct is a completely valid argument check in matlab:

	error(nargchk(2,6,nargin));

and returns to toplevel only if the nargchk function returns a string,
but in octave the aforementioned example will always return to toplevel.

Othervise satisfied so far, Johan

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