Distinguishing Octave from Matlab

[Primoz PETERLIN]

Thanks to everybody for your help!

Primoz

2008/2/15, Søren Hauberg <soren at hauberg.org>:
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> fre, 15 02 2008 kl. 11:32 +0100, skrev David Bateman:
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> > In this case yes.. The reason is that "OCTAVE_VERSION" is a builtin in
> > recent versions of Octave and was previously a variable, therefore we
> > can either check both "var" and "builtin" resulting in the need two
> > tests, or as we don't care about the speed of the first call, just check
> > all possibilities for the type of OCTAVE_VERSION. This allows this
> > function to identify all versions of Octave I know of.. However, the use
> > of exist twice will be slower, and a generic exist call is even slower
> > as it searches the loadpath for possible functions, thus causing disk
> > activity. So its better to use a persistent in this case.
>
> Makes sense -- thanks for explaining.
>
>
> Søren
>
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