parsing error with missing commas?

[John W. Eaton]

On 16-Jan-2009, Jörg Bretschneider wrote:

| I have to port an entire toolbox from matlab to octave and run into
| trouble with a parsing error:
| syntax error
| when I ussued a command with a cell array whose elements where separated
| simply by spaces, which is quite common in matlab and also works with
| octave 3 in many cases.
| I attach the command as my email here cannot produce the brackets for
| cell arrays, just {}

I see no simple fix for this problem.

jwe