From bug-request at octave dot org Sun Apr 16 12:26:46 2006
Subject: Re: Extra input variable in oregonator.m
From: "Keith Goodman" <kwgoodman at gmail dot com>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Cc: "bug at octave dot org" <bug@octave.org>
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 10:25:05 -0700

On 4/16/06, John W. Eaton <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu> wrote:
> On 16-Apr-2006, Keith Goodman wrote:
>
> | examples/oregonator.m takes two input variables (x and t) but only
> | uses one (x).
> | examples/oregonator.cc only uses one (x).
> |
> | Here's a patch to remove `t' in oregonator.m.
>
> This function is intended to be called from ODE solvers like lsode
> which expect the RHS function to accept X and T.  Removing the second
> argument won't cause trouble as long as you don't also generate an
> error if both X and T are supplied by the caller (as lsode will).

That's confusing---especially for someone making their first oct file.



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