From owner-help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Jan 23 14:12:56 1996
Subject: Re: how 'error' command work?
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Dutt dot Vinayak at Mayo dot EDU
cc: windy at ksc9 dot th dot com, help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 14:12:55 -0600

Vinayak Dutt <vdp at us0 dot mayo dot edu> wrote:

: error() command is for situations when due to certain errors in
: processing, the function has to be aborted.  If you just want to
: falg users for some error which is not terminal to the processing,
: you can display the warning message through disp() command
: instead. Use of error() immediately halts the execution of the
: function and returns control back to the calling routine.

This is true if error() is called from a function, but not from a
script.  If it is called from a script, it prints the error message
but continues to the next command, similar the the way /bin/sh works
if the -e option is not set.  I suppose this behavior should be
optional, so I've added it to the list of things to work on.

Thanks,

jwe