From help-request at octave dot org Thu Dec 15 14:00:55 2005
Subject: Re: matching command
From: Shai Ayal <shaia at biocontrol dot co dot il>
To: help at octave dot org
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:55:44 +0200

Stefan van der Walt wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 07:31:38PM +0800, William Poetra Yoga Hadisoeseno wrote:
>> But you should always look at the help message of each function before
>> using it. For example: `help plot'
>>
>> It's because some functions behave differently from their Matlab
> counterparts.
> 
> They're not supposed to -- and if they do, it's a bug.  It might be
> true, though, that not all functionality is always identically
> supported (and of course, using 'help' is always a good idea).

I'm not sure I agree -- e.g. the plot command's way of specifying line 
labels (keys) is a wonderful feature which I think does not exist in matlab

plot(x,y,"b-;just a line;");

I'm sure there are many other examples. IMHO Octave should strive to be 
better than matlab, not just a clone

Shai



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