matlab combatibillity of v3.2

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 8:36 PM, John W. Eaton<jwe at octave.org> wrote:
> On 10-Jun-2009, WMennerich wrote:
>
> | Hello,
> | First, I want to congratulate to the new version 3.2, which seems to be a
> | big step.
> | I just tried the Octave MinGW 3.2 and found an incompatibility to Matlab:
> |
> | In matlab you can have
> |
> | >switch travellingDirection
> | >
> | >case {'east' 'west'}
> | >
> | >      advice='Change time on your Clock';
> | >
> | >case {'north' south'}
> | >
> | >      advice='Change cloth on your Body';
> | >
> | >end
> | >
> |
> |
> | In octave, this does not work, you need {'east' , 'west'} instead of {'east'
> | 'west'}
> |
> | [ I mean the colon between 'east' and 'west' ]
> |
> |
> | I will solve this for me by changing my user code, so see this more as an
> | information.
>
> I checked in the following change.
>
>  http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/29563379fa9b
>
> Jaroslav, since this used to work in 3.0.x, I think this patch should
> be applied to the 3.2.x release branch.

Done.

> | Another thing is the matlab 'dbstop if error' comand. Octave 3.2 (MinGW)
> | gives an error:
> | >error: add_breakpoint: unable to find the function requested
> | I dont now whether this is not yet implemented or just a bug.
>
> Debugging on error conditions is implemented, but someone needs to fix
> the dbstop command to parse its arguments in a Matlab compatible way.
> I'd certainly consider a patch.
>
> For now, you can use
>
>  debug_on_error (true);
>
> instead.
>
> jwe
>



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RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
computing expert & GNU Octave developer
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz