From help-request at octave dot org Mon Oct 24 15:33:38 2005
Subject: MATLAB / Octave compatability, spacing, parsing
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: sct at ucsd dot edu
Cc: Octave Help <help at octave dot org>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:33:25 -0400

On 24-Oct-2005, Steve C. Thompson wrote:

| but I think that MATLAB generally wants
| 
|   this = that(with, some, parms);

Why?  What happens if you have a space before the open paren?

| works in Octave but MATLAB requires
| 
|   a = b';

Again, why?  What happens if you have a space between be and the
single quote character?

| Do any of you know of a resource that could be helpful?

You could ask on comp.soft-sys.matlab why Matlab stupidly interprets
whitespace as significant in these cases.  1/2 :-)

jwe



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