From owner-bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Sun Nov 24 00:19:47 1996
Subject: s='' and s=[] Matlab compatability
From: Mike Blatchley <mblatch at orci dot com>
To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
cc: mblatch at orci dot com
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 23:19:44 -0700 (MST)

With the release of 1.92 and 1.93, I have been able to run many more of 
my Matlab scripts.  However, invoking octave in '--traditional' mode, 
I've run into the following two incompatabilities:

1)
  s='';
  size(s)
  Matlab returns: 0 0      Octave returns: 1 0

2)
  s=[];
  ["test" s]
  Matlab returns: test     Octave returns: 116 101 115 116

I don't know if I'd call these "bugs", but I wanted to point out a couple 
last computational incompatabilities I see.

I am running octave-1.93 on a Pentium RedHat Linux machine, 2.0.25 kernel. 
If you have any follow-up questions, please mail direcly to me as I am not
monitoring the bug-octave list. 

Thanks,

Mike Blatchley
mblatch at orci dot com