Distinguishing Octave from Matlab

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 15, 2008, at 5:02 AM, David Bateman wrote:

> Use Octave 3.0.0 and use the matlab syntax everywhere, in most cases  
> it
> should then just work.. If there are any other differences that  
> prevent
> it working then they should be reported as bugs. A function that does
> what you want is
>
> function ret = isoctave ()
>  persistent isoct
>  if (isempty (isoct))
>     isoct = exist('OCTAVE_VERSION') ~= 0;
>  end
>  ret = isoct;
> end
>
> Regards
> David

Might this be added to the core functions?

Ben