[changeset] Re: if 1 | nonsense 'hello', end

[John W. Eaton]

On 29-Oct-2008, Thorsten Meyer wrote:

| > | 
| > | Could Octave's help write something like Matlab's help?
| > | Matlab 6.5 help says:
| > |                  Short-circuit logical AND         &&
| > |                  Short-circuit logical OR          ||
| > |     and        - Element-wise logical AND           &
| > |     or         - Element-wise logical OR            |
| > 
| > I'd consider a patch if someone would like to prepare one.
| > 
| Here is a patch to clarify the documentation strings for &&,&,||,|.

These changes are OK, but I think they will conflict with Søren's
pending changes.  Søren, would you please fold these changes in with
yours?  Or would you prefer that I check them in now, and then you
fix the conflicts in your changeset?

| two questions:
|  - should the incompatibility to matlab in the short-circuit behaviour
| also be documented in the help string for & and |?

I don't think it is necessary to do this in the Octave manual.

|  - how much attention do I need to pay not to cite the matlab
| documentation literally within the octave help strings (from a legal
| point of view)?

What do you mean by "cite the matlab documentation literally"?  You
should definitely not be copying (even if you modify the wording) any
Matlab documentation.

jwe