From owner-bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Feb  3 21:56:53 1997
Subject: Re: signal processing functions
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Jim Van Zandt <jrv at vanzandt dot mv dot com>
Cc: jeffo at pm1-09 dot eecs dot umich dot edu, bug-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 21:42:31 -0600

On  3-Feb-1997, Jim Van Zandt <jrv at vanzandt dot mv dot com> wrote:

| >   I have used matlab extensively, but have never written m-files
| >   for other people.  Could you could provide me with a template that
| >   I should follow for the m-files (documentation, argument checking, etc.)?
| 
| Please do "info octave" and look at the discussion of functions.
| 
| You may have some "bad habits" to break.  Just today I discovered that
| Matlab apparently does not permit comments (!) -- or else it uses a
| different comment convention than Octave.  Also, it doesn't permit
| "endif" and "endfor", but only the anonymous "end".

Octave will allow you to write `end' anywhere the more specific
keywords are expected.  It just makes things a bit clearer if you use
the more specific forms.  Also, it can sometimes provide you with
better error messages.

jwe