From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Oct 12 04:30:35 1995
Subject: BAR not Matlab 4+ compatible
From: Eyal Doron <doron at goofy dot mpi-hd dot mpg dot de>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu (Octave mailing list)
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 10:29:59 +0100 (MET)

Hi,

  I wonder if you noticed:

MATLAB 4.0:

; [X,Y]=bar(1:10,1:10);
; length(X)
ans =
    51

Octave 1.1.1:

octave:11> [X,Y]=bar(1:10,1:10);
octave:12> length(X)
ans = 31

What is happening is that Matlab puts spaces between the bars, while
Octave does not. Personally I prefer the Octave behavior, but it
caused me trouble in a routine which manipulates the output of BAR.
What do you think?

Eyal Doron