From help-request at octave dot org Thu Dec 15 18:27:25 2005 Subject: Re: matching command From: William Poetra Yoga Hadisoeseno To: help at octave dot org Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:25:37 +0800 On 12/16/05, Mike Miller wrote: > I think we should strive for "unidirectional compatibility" such that > Octave can run *any* MATLAB code (rendering MATLAB unnecessary) but MATLAB > might not be able to run all Octave code. This allows us to have both > compatibility and superiority. > Yes, this is nice :) But IMO someone should clean up the functions so that when `warn_matlab_incompatible' is true, Octave should be fully compatible with Matlab as much as possible (well, at least function names must be allowed to start with an underscore, in contrast to Matlab). I was confused when my homework generates errors on my friend's PC (was the plot incompatibility). -- William Poetra Yoga Hadisoeseno ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------