From owner-bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Dec 31 09:07:18 1996
Subject: implicit_str_to_num_ok and m-files
From: Darrel Hankerson <hankedr at dms dot auburn dot edu>
To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 09:07:10 -0600 (CST)

In Octave-1.1.1, it was possible to use a hack of the form

  function success()
  implicit_str_to_num_ok=1
  '#' + 0

In Octave-2.0, if implicit_str_to_num_ok=0 when success() is called, 
then octave will refuse to read the file:

  error: invalid conversion from string to real matrix

This requires some workarounds which are fairly simple, but clumsy
if we want the scripts to work in both matlab and octave.

Tested on Solaris-2.5.1 Sparc and Linux-1.3.12.

-- 
--Darrel Hankerson hankedr at mail dot auburn dot edu