From bug-request at octave dot org Fri Apr 14 10:16:42 2006
Subject: Re: strcmpi doesn't check input types
From: Bill Denney <denney at seas dot upenn dot edu>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
cc: bugs at octave dot org
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 11:15:35 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, John W. Eaton wrote:

> I agree that the current behavior is not right, but an error would
> make the behavior of strcmpi different from strcmp, so I think it
> should just return 0 if the arguments are not the right type.

I would view that as a silent failure.  I, as a user, assume that if I 
don't see an error that I have done things correctly.  If I give strcmp a 
double and a char, I'd prefer to be told of that.  I'd say that instead of 
returning 0 like strcmp, strcmp should be changed to give an error.

What case(s) would be better with a returned 0 instead of an error?

Bill

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